Pronouncements Quotes

• The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

  

  Sophocles
  • Opinions
  • Wise Man
  • Pronouncements

• Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves.

  

  Nicolaus Copernicus
  • Moves
  • Heavens
  • Conception

• A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Hearts
  • Wondered
  • Doom

• Nothing could be more absurd than moral lessons at such a moment! Oh, self-satisfied people: with what proud self-satisfaction such babblers are ready to utter their pronouncements! If they only knew to what degree I myself understand all the loathsomeness of my present condition, they wouldn't have the heart to teach me.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Teach
  • Lessons

• Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

  

  Rene Daumal
  • Experience
  • Gold
  • Experiences

• Twentieth-century art has allowed me to see things in a cryptic way. I love the butterfly's wings, which disappear when folded and when open leave this brilliant, intense pronouncement of nature, 'Here I am.'

  

  Emmet Gowin
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Wings

• The subject of human rights in China confounds absolute pronouncements.

  

  Evan Osnos
  • China
  • Human Rights
  • Pronouncements