Quotes with infinite

  • Every situation, every moment - is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity.
  • Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
  • The Father is the Giver of Life; but the Mother is the Giver of Death, because her womb is the gate of ingress to matter, and through her life is ensouled to form, and no form can be either infinite or eternal. Death is implicit in birth.
  • Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
  • The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
  • We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
  • A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
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  • Lyman Abbott A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
    Lyman Abbott
    American Congregationalist theologian, editor, and author. (1835 - 1922)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Thoroughness characterizes all successful men. Genius is the art of taking infinite pains. All great achievement has been characterized by extreme care, infinite painstaking, even to the minutest detail.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Emily Dickinson Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson Friend, of my infinite dreams Little enough endures; Little howe'er it seems, It is yours, all yours.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Charles Edward Jerningham Genius is an infinite capacity for overcoming the opposition of mediocrities.
    The maxims of Marmaduke
    Charles Edward Jerningham
    English aphorist (1854 - 1921)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an island in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Albert Einstein Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ann Plato A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
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  • Thomas Traherne A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • William Shakespeare Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety. Other women cloy the appetites they feed, but she makes hungry where most she satisfies.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • A. W. Tozer An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Any move made in a state of tension will be of more important, and will have more results, than it would have made in a state of eqilibrium. In times of maximum tension this importance will rise to an infinite degree.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Peter Cook As I looked out into the night sky, across all those infinite stars, it made me realize how insignificant they are.
    Peter Cook
    English satirist and comedic actor (1937 - 1995)
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  • Billy Campbell Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • George Bancroft Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • George Bancroft Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
    George Bancroft
    American historian (1800 - 1891)
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  • Bernard Crick Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
    In Defence Of Politics A Footnote To Rally The Academic, p. 164
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Doctrine tied itself into infinite knots over the realities of sex.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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