Dabblers Quotes & Sayings

Surely there were others like me, born without an inkling of direction. The wanderers, the amblers, the dabblers, united by our purposeless mantra-I have no idea what to do with my life. — Suzanne Selfors

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. — Aldous Huxley

The motives behind scientism are culturally significant. They have been mixed, as usual: genuine curiosity in search of truth; the rage for certainty and for unity; and the snobbish desire to earn the label scientist when that became a high social and intellectual rank. But these efforts, even though vain, have not been without harm, to the inventors and to the world at large. The "findings" have inspired policies affecting daily life that were enforced with the same absolute assurance as earlier ones based on religion. At the same time, the workers in the realm of intuition, the gifted finessers - artists, moralists, philosophers, historians, political theorists, and theologians - were either diverted from their proper task, while others were looking on them with disdain as dabblers in the suburbs of Truth. — Jacques Barzun

The Lord made no better clock than a child, and none more bitter. Oh, what beautiful clocks they are. — Vincent Louis Carrella

Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort. — Georgia Salpa

If we repent, the Lord will forgive us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Countries which are governed by the dabblers will undoubtedly turn into the miserable countries! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

You don't leave Australia unless you are passionate. Any Australian actor who comes to America is really committed. There are no dabblers - it's all or nothing. — Margot Robbie

I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible. — Banana Yoshimoto