Quotes with prophet

  • Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
  • Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

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  • Kahlil Gibran Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Abbie Hoffman I see Judaism as a way of life. Sticking up for the underdog. Being an outsider. A critic of society. The kid on the corner who says the emperor has no clothes on. The Prophet.
    Tikkun (July-August 1989)
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Isaac Bashevis Singer If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
    Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Polish Yiddish writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1978) (1902 - 1991)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Cat Stevens Salman Rushdie, indeed any writer who abuses the prophet or indeed any prophet under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Euripides The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Cat Stevens The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Cat Stevens The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.
    Law is Justice: Notable Opinions of Mr. Justice Cardozo
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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