Precipitancy Quotes

#1. The precipitancy of disputation, and the stir and noise of passions that usually attend it, must needs be prejudicial to verity.

Joseph Glanvill

#2. The first was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt.

Rene Descartes

#3. When the precipitancy of a man's wishes hurries on his ideas ninety times faster than the vehicle he rides in
woe be to truth!

Laurence Sterne

#4. You might not agree with me, but I always offer a lot of support.

Vincent Bugliosi

#5. Throughout the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, Latin was the language of learning and international communication. But in the early modern period, it was gradually displaced by French. By the eighteenth century, all the world - or at least all of Europe - aspired to be Parisian.

Michael Dirda

#6. That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

Fran Lebowitz

#7. We do not have to look for God, we do not have to look for our ultimate dimension or nirvana, because we are nirvana, we are God.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

John Locke

#9. That would be like breaking a mirror for showing you the truth.

Chuck Palahniuk

#10. Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.

Alice Moore Hubbard

#11. I have Algerian, Turkish, Swedish, Spanish blood: I feel like a citizen of the world. Life and cinema don't have borders.

Eva Green

#12. The art of interpretation is not to play what is written.

Pablo Casals

#13. Having faith and belief in my inner guidance allows me to see the world in a way that strengthens that faith and belief and brings with it a life filled with welcomed expectation and awe.

Charles F. Glassman

#14. Don't talk to me like you know me. Talk to me like you love me.

Pleasefindthis

#15. Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.

Alexander Pope

#16. The religion that fosters intolerance needs another Christ to die for it.

Henry Ward Beecher