Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.Soren Kierkegaard
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He is less likely to be mistaken who looks forward to a change in the affairs of the world than he who regards them as firm and stable.
Francesco Guicciardini -
God is love, the parson whined.
T. H. White -
Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.
Lucille Clifton -
God is love; to do his will is to scatter love in handfuls of blessing on a weary world.
F. B. Meyer -
To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.
John Stuart Mill -
Inquire often, but judge rarely, and thou wilt not often be mistaken.
William Penn
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I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
If you think that the people of the Soviet Union have any desire themselves, and moreover, by force, to alter the face of surrounding states, then you are badly mistaken.
Joseph Stalin -
To be mistaken in believing that the Christian religion is true is no great loss to anyone; but how dreadful to be mistaken in believing it to be false!
Blaise Pascal -
When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.
Blaise Pascal -
I may be mistaken but it seems to me that a man may be judged by his laugh, and that if at first encounter you like the laugh of a person completely unknown to you, you may say with assurance that he is good.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
To buy books would be a good thing if we could also buy the time to read them; but the purchase of books is often mistaken for the assimilation and mastering of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.
George Washington -
Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.
Humphry Davy -
The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.
Dannie Abse -
People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong - they may be mistaken.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.
David Wessel -
Rising inequality isn’t about who has the knowledge; it’s about who has the power.
George Bernard Shaw -
I've gotten all kinds of reactions and it's been used in so many different ways.
Aleksandra Mir -
This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.
Soren Kierkegaard