Pyrrhonian Quotes

#1. If you never saw the stars, candles were enough.

Maggie Stiefvater

#2. Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.

David Hume

#3. He's the path lined with wildflowers, And I'm Red Riding Hood. I've been warned, but I just can't resist the blossom and perfume that calls me over.

Liz Reinhardt

#4. The history of science alone can keep the physicist from the mad ambitions of dogmatism as well as the despair of pyrrhonian scepticism.

Pierre Duhem

#5. They have a baby grand piano, but no one in the family plays. They have shelves of books they've never read, and the tension between the couples was so thick it nearly choked us.

Ruta Sepetys

#6. It's really sad for me that in the United States the Latino community is losing its culture and language, especially among kids born here - a lot of them can't even speak our language.

Romeo Santos

#7. For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a strategem.

Edward Young

#8. Within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.

Rhawn Joseph

#9. Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she manages to be a good wife, a good mother, good-looking, good-tempered, well-dressed, well-groomed, and unaggressive.

Marya Mannes

#10. Amin managed to invite both the US and Soviet ambassadors to his palace at the very same time and then deliberately kept them together in his waiting room.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

#11. The simple, rational garb of terminal illness had translated her into an aristocrat. A truly great lady lay there before us, pure as the stars. It

Magda Szabo

#12. I guess what we do in life is like the stars in the sky, we just reflect back the love that God gave us ...

Phil Mitchell

#13. I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects who are tearing each other to pieces for the love of the Lord and hatred of each other.

Lord Byron

#14. One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.

Zooey Deschanel

#15. Academic sceptics argued for the conclusion that knowledge was impossible; Pyrrhonian sceptics aimed to reach no conclusions at all, suspending judgement on all questions, even the question of the possibility of knowledge.

Jennifer Nagel