Sophistic Quotes & Sayings

Just one step. Just one mile. Just one dollar. Just one kiss. Just one person. When we look at life through the lens of 'one,' everything becomes that much more attainable. — Mick Ebeling

If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character. — Charles Spurgeon

The raging monster upon the land is population growth. In its presence, sustainability is but a fragile theoretical construct. To say, as many do, that the difficulties of nations are not due to people, but to poor ideology and land-use management is sophistic. — Pete Wilson

Such "godlessness" he finds particularly present in the American church, which begins by seeking to faithfully build the world with Christian principles and ends with the total capitulation of the church to the world. Such societies and the churches have no confidence in truth with the result that the place of truth is usurped by sophistic propaganda.[76] — Stanley Hauerwas

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I would be moving in the cold of the settling evening, the few stars in the chasm overhead, the only way I could still myself at all: move. — Peter Heller

The sun rose. Flowers bloomed. People even continued to talk to me as if I weren't a complete failure, as if they didn't know or possibly -- unthinkably -- didn't care. Life went on. I think that's when I realized that it's all bullshit. — Johnny B. Truant

Some people sit at life' banquet table while others serve them — Bangambiki Habyarimana

Hell, rationality itself - the exalted Human ability to reason - hadn't evolved in the pursuit of truth but simply to win arguments, to gain control: to bend others, by means logical or sophistic, to your will. — Peter Watts

A garden is the best alternative therapy. — Germaine Greer

What's the use of the wind if it won't take you away on it? — Samantha Young

The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary. — Mahatma Gandhi

Even now that I only have one eye, maybe I see more things than before. My life was completely against the clock, a fight against the stopwatch. — Maria De Villota