Gournay Quotes

#1. Whoever is so stupid as to imagine God to be either masculine or feminine openly shows that he is as bad a philosopher as a theologian.

Marie De Gournay

#2. And I think that you must have observed again and again what a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose.

Plato

#3. Lucky are you, reader, if you happen not to be of that sex to whom it is forbidden all good things; to whom liberty is denied; to whom almost all virtues are denied; lucky are you if you are one of those who can be wise without its being a crime.

Marie De Gournay

#4. You pluck flower after flower - it is never the flower. The flower itself - its calyx is a horrible gulf, it is the bottomless pit.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. The most important quality of an inept person is to rely on popular belief and hearsay.

Marie De Gournay

#6. Certain ancient cavilers have gone so far as to deny that the female sex, as opposed to the male sex, is made in the likeness of God, which likeness they must have taken to be, as far as I can tell, in the beard.

Marie De Gournay

#7. Nothing in these abstract economic models actually works in the real world. It doesn't matter how many footnotes they put in, or how many ways they tinker around the edges. The whole enterprise is totally rotten at the core: it has no relation to reality.

Noam Chomsky

#8. You can find lots of people like you through technology, and women in particular like communities.

Carly Fiorina

#9. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't cast my vote as a Jewish member of Congress. I cast my vote as a member of Congress.

Steve Israel

#10. When you start comparing with others, you fall into a trap with no way out

Dee Dee Artner

#11. Ignorance is the mother of presumption

Marie De Gournay

#12. The human animal ... is ... neither male nor female ... And if I am allowed to jest a little in passing, I have a joke that is not altogether irrelevant: nothing resembles a male cat on the windowsill more than a female cat.

Marie De Gournay

#13. Prayer is a discipline in truthfulness, in honesty.

Marilynne Robinson

#14. I'm actually thinking about getting back to being a bath tub. I don't think anyone's ever quite segued into that.

David Duchovny

#15. Happy are you, reader, if you do not belong to this sex to which all good is forbidden.

Marie De Gournay

#16. It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music.

Solange Knowles

#17. Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

Ambrose Bierce

#18. I think we can safely assume that no one understands quantum mechanics.

Richard P. Feynman