Credulities Past Quotes & Sayings

Those old credulities, to Nature dear, Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock Of history? — William Wordsworth

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism
a Mongoloid metaphysic. — Edward Abbey

Faith may rise into miracles of might, as some few wise men have shown; faith may sink into credulities of weakness, as the mass of fools have witnessed. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

They sat far apart
deliberately, to experience, daily,
the sweetness of seeing each other across
great distance. — Louise Gluck

All men bear the image of God. They have value not because they are redeemed, but because they are God's creation in God's image. — Francis Schaeffer

What you want is the opportunity to work and an audience. Prizes after that are just a great big bonus. — Kenneth Branagh

Some things mankind can finish and be done with, but not ... science, that persists, and changes from ancient Chaldeans studying the stars to a new telescope with a 200-inch reflector and beyond; not religion, that persists, and changes from old credulities and world views to new thoughts of God and larger apprehensions of his meaning. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way. — Lily Tomlin

It's not the win that matters so much as recognizing and respecting its value. — Lorii Myers

Assured her I've never loved anyone except myself and have no intention of starting now, — David Mitchell

Analysis of the composition of samples of DNA from a great variety of sources and by many investigators revealed the remarkable fact that the purine content always equals the pyrimidine content. — Arthur Kornberg

You cannot pick and choose love. Love picks and chooses you, if you are lucky. So what, you might lose everything? What better thing is there to lose if not everything for love? — Jack Dancer

Sound science must be our guide in choosing which problems to tackle and how to approach them. — Frank Luntz

I am not perfect." It came out in a rush of breath. "See I thought I was. Thank God I ain't. See a perfect thing ain't got a chance. The world kills it, everything perfect. (Listen to him!) Now see a thing that ain't perfect, it grows like a weed. Yeah, like a weed! A thing that ain't perfect gets hand clapping, smiles, takes the wire an easy winner. But the world ain't set up right if you perfect. You lible to run right into a brick wall. Looks like suicide. All the weeds say, looka there, it suicide! — Harry Crews

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. — Joseph Conrad

Courting Peggy McGrath provided me with a very pleasant diversion and eventually with the most important relationship of my life. — David Rockefeller