Precluded Means Quotes & Sayings

What blinds us, or makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness that our beliefs have grown obsolete and should be put aside ... This is I think much of the problem of the modern dilemma: Direct experience has been discounted, and in its place all kinds of belief systems have been erected ... If you believe something, you are automatically precluded from believing its opposite; which means that a degree of your human freedom has been forfeited in the act of committing yourself to this belief. — Terence McKenna

This lucid explanation of the phenomena we had witnessed appeared to me quite satisfactory. However great and mighty the marvels of nature may seem to us, they are always to be explained by physical reasons. Everything is subordinate to some great law of nature. — Jules Verne

So your final assignment is a simple one but it's going to take forever: be happy. No matter what it takes. No matter how embarrassing it might be sometimes, no matter who or what you might have to forgive, no matter how hideous the color of the hat that makes you smile, be happy. — Beth Harbison

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope. — John Strachan

Oh lord and master. High muckety-muck. — Cherise Sinclair

In my experience people are rarely contented to end up where they started. — Eleanor Catton

Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better. — Andrew Whitworth

If chick-lit really is taking a commercial battering, I'd suggest it's because the marketing has been done to death. Covering everything in girlie pink and putting chocolate in the title may once have been a clever Pavlovian device but now makes readers feel a bit sick. — Jojo Moyes

Deafness, though it be total and congenital, imposes no limits on the intellectual development of its subjects, save in the single direction of the appreciation of acoustic phenomena. — Edward Miner Gallaudet

No wonder the grass grows up between the flags, and cattle are the only hedge- cutters. — Emily Bronte

You only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough. — Fred Allen

You may forget your childhood, but your childhood does not forget you. — Michael Dibdin

Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years. — Tom Chatfield

Our fathers knew that the flag was never intended to protect any man who wanted to assail it. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The man is too narcissistic, too shallow and cowardly for suicide. Days — Joyce Carol Oates

I will get my education - if it is in home, school, or anyplace. — Malala Yousafzai