Expounded Quotes

#1. After all the great religions have been preached and expounded, man is still confronted with the Great Mystery.

Luther Standing Bear

#2. To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

Marquis De Sade

#3. Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

Max Bill

#4. When my father, Ronald Reagan, was running for president in 1980, my mother, Nancy, traveled with him on the campaign trail, but she did not give speeches or even many interviews. She never stood in front of a group of reporters and expounded on her views and opinions.

Patti Davis

#5. SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness.

Ambrose Bierce

#6. A remarkable parallel, which I think has never been noticed, obtains between the facts of social evolution on the one hand, and of zological evolution as expounded by Mr. Darwin on the other.

William James

#7. The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Ronald Reagan knew his own mind. He had firm principles - and, I believe, right ones. He expounded them clearly, he acted upon them decisively.

Margaret Thatcher

#9. UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature and laws have been exhaustively expounded by Locke, who rode a house, and Kant, who lived in a horse.

Ambrose Bierce

#10. Christ did not appoint professors, but followers. If Christianity ... is not reduplicated in the life of the person expounding it, then he does not expound Christianity, for Christianity is a message about living and can only be expounded by being realized in men's lives.

Soren Kierkegaard

#11. God's Word, when rightly expounded, is medicinal for a whole host of spiritual diseases.

Joel Beeke

#12. He that expects to quantify in dollars the gains that will accrue to a company year by year for a program for improvement of quality expounded in [Out of the Crisis] will suffer delusion. He should know before he starts that he will be able to quantify only a trivial part of the gain.

W. Edwards Deming

#13. Trotskyism is not a new movement, a new doctrine, but the restoration, the revival of genuine Marxism as it was expounded and practiced in the Russian revolution and in the early days of the Communist International.

James P. Cannon

#14. Spirituality, as expounded by the great saints and sages of the past, is a very broad path. It accommodates all types of belief systems. You need to satisfy everyone.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#15. He tells his reader that writings should be expounded in four senses. The first

Dante Alighieri

#16. Among all the sutras I have expounded,
Lotus Sutra is the first and foremost!
If you are able to uphold the Lotus Sutra,
it means you are able to uphold the body of a Buddha!
(LS 11: 3.35)
Lotus Sutra, Chapter 11, Section 3, Paragraph 35

Gautama Buddha

#17. the brilliant balance of the gospel that Luther so persistently expounded - "We are saved by faith alone, but not by faith which is alone.

Eric Metaxas

#18. The Buddhas speak the wondrous sound throughout the world; the Teachings spoken over countless ages can all be expounded in a single word.

Thomas Cleary

#19. The joy of a self-giving life
Can neither be measured
Nor be expounded.

Sri Chinmoy

#20. Smolin's idea, expounded in The Life of the Cosmos, hinges

Richard Dawkins

#21. He expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.

Anonymous

#22. My discourse leads to the truth; the mind is great and guided by this teaching is able to arrive at some understanding. When the mind has understood all things and found them to be in harmony with what has been expounded by the teachings, it is faithful and comes to rest in that beautiful faith.

Hermes Trismegistus

#23. Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn from the Bible and expounded by the church, is enough to drive the most imaginative and sensitive natures to despair and death.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#24. The anarch, as I have expounded elsewhere, is the pendant to the monarch; he is as sovereign as the monarch, and also freer since he does not have to rule.

Ernst Junger

#25. God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

Frederick William Robertson

#26. The counting-room maxims liberally expounded are laws of the Universe. The merchant's economy is a coarse symbol of the soul's economy. It is, to spend for power, and not for pleasure.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#27. Hats have been my thing pretty much my whole life but finance has not. I would go to the corner store and buy really cheap baseball style caps and wear those to school.

Ne-Yo

#28. I cannot stand this any longer. I don't know where I'm going. I suspect that I am not going anywhere at all, just away

Veronica Roth

#29. Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

Alain-Rene Lesage

#30. Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

Confucius

#31. Some of the opera houses in Italy had to be burnt down because people could neither see nor hear. They gave up seeing years ago, but they did enjoy the music.

Philip Johnson

#32. The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment and a particular physical condition. These and many other elements in a never-to-be-duplicated combination determine his response to the text.

Louise Rosenblatt