Propounded Quotes

#1. There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don't have any powers. It's kind of a sour grapes attitude.

Frederick Lenz

#2. The elder Geoffroy and Goethe propounded, at about the same time, their law of compensation or balancement of growth; or, as Goethe expressed it, in order to spend on one side, nature is forced to economise on the other side.

Charles Darwin

#3. While moral rules may be propounded by authority the fact that these were so propounded would not validate them.

A.J. Ayer

#4. One of the most fallacious doctrines originated by Satan and propounded by man is that man is saved alone by the grace of God; that belief in Jesus Christ alone is all that is needed for salvation

Spencer W. Kimball

#5. If anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas propounded by the Church which is different from that which the Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema.

Pope Pius IX

#6. The central thesis of the American failure in Afghanistan - the one you'll hear from politicians and pundits and even scholars - was succinctly propounded by Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage: 'The war in Iraq drained resources from Afghanistan before things were under control'.

Anand Gopal

#7. He makes this favor common to all, because it is propounded to all, and not because it is in reality extended to all; for though Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world, and is offered through God's benignity indiscriminately to all, yet all do not receive him.

John Calvin

#8. Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that "the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain"?

Laurence Sterne

#9. (2) In regard to the making of the universe and the creation of all things there have been various opinions, and each person has propounded the theory that suited his own taste. For instance, some say that all things are self-originated and,

Athanasius Of Alexandria

#10. One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

Simon Newcomb

#11. That's the only way to look at things, I always say," propounded the Duke. "Slantways, sideways, and upside down.

Catherynne M Valente

#12. The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.

John H. Reagan

#13. those things which are necessary to be known, believed, and observed, for salvation, are so clearly propounded, and opened in some place of Scripture or other, that not only the learned, but the unlearned, in a due use of the ordinary means, may attain unto a sufficient understanding of them.[219]

Anonymous

#14. The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end.

John Steinbeck

#15. Phule had propounded the theory of the Aryan invasion as the source of oppression; dalit radicals of the 1920s took it to its extreme; Amedkar denied it.

Gail Omvedt

#16. The engine driving the Kelly system is the "law of large numbers." In a 1713 treatise on probability, Swiss mathematician Jakob Bernoulli propounded a law that has been misunderstood by gamblers (and investors) ever since.

William Poundstone

#17. You should not put too much trust in any unproved conjecture, even if it has been propounded by a great authority, even if it has been propounded by yourself. You should try to prove it or disprove it ...

George Polya

#18. An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.

Horace Mann

#19. Since physics is poetry, then poetry is physics, he propounded.

Rebecca Goldstein

#20. I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.

Arturo Sandoval

#21. I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history' ... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move ... do something fresh and new.'

Tommy Lee

#22. Old black water, keep on rollin'
Mississippi moon won't you keep on shinin' on me?

Patrick Simmons

#23. The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#24. When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

Natalie Dormer

#25. Why isn't it hip-hop when I do it? Everybody else can have beef within the music, talk about differences and it's ok. It's music, it's hip-hop, it's ground breaking. When I do it, it's war.

Tupac Shakur

#26. Angelina Jolie's older brother James Haven, the one she made out with, has a license plate on his SUV that reads Shiloh. Maybe it's not that weird. After all, he could be the father.

Chelsea Handler

#27. Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, "democracy." But now "democracy" can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own.

C.S. Lewis

#28. Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.

Andrew Root

#29. At the end of the day, I don't need to work, and I think it's good that I have the drive and willpower to get up and do something in the morning even though I don't need to.

Petra Stunt

#30. The most important aspect of detente today is that there is no ideological detente.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#31. The daggers of silence last longer than anything ever spoken.

Shannon L. Alder