Quotes About Signs And Symbols

#1. She resented the fact that her veil, which to her was a symbol of her sacred relationship to God, had now become an instrument of power, turning the women who wore them into political signs and symbols. Where do your loyalties lie, Mr. Bahri, with Islam or the state?

Azar Nafisi

#2. All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in us the existence that he has seen and lives through. No artistic speech is the adequate expression of what it represents; its vital force comes from what is unspoken in it.

Albert Schweitzer

#3. Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

Mark Twain

#4. Life is so full of portents and signs and symbols that it's a wonder not everyone is a writer.

Susan Juby

#5. Words and laws in this world made place for signs and symbols.

Ben Midland

#6. Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.

Confucius

#7. ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

Colin Maclaurin

#8. With the capacity to represent the world in signs and symbols comes the capacity to change it, which, as it happens, is also the capacity to destroy it. A tiny set of genetic variations divides us from the Neanderthals, but that has made all the difference.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#9. Signs and symbols. They were everything to an occultist. Witness: the sign of the ring. How easily it slipped from her finger as Alexander Kale reached across the sleeping woman in his bed and nimbly removed her wedding ring.

Howard F. Clarke

#10. capitalism is not "materialistic," but "semiotic." It concerns mainly the psychological world of signs, symbols, images, and brands,

Geoffrey Miller

#11. Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

Saint Augustine

#12. The fire alarm is not the fire.

Marty Rubin

#13. I think that what happens is that all of my modern influences blend together with the older soul influences and you get Mayer Hawthorne.

Mayer Hawthorne

#14. There is a common language, a mode of consciousness, almost a secret sign which can be read and recognized by all who are similarly engaged. Such realizations help fend off the feeling of isolation which can dog the steps of those who seek the Grail.

John Matthews

#15. Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.

Neale Donald Walsch

#16. It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van.

Anthony Burgess

#17. I think the whole reason for my life is in there somewhere.

Chaka Khan

#18. Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

Lin Yutang

#19. Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

Isidore Of Seville

#20. Nature, as man has always known it, he knows no more. Since he has learned to esteem signs above symbols, to suppress his emotional reactions in favor of practical ones and make use of nature instead of holding so much of it sacred, he has altered the face, if not the heart, of reality.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#21. We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin.

Alan Watts

#22. Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

#23. If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

Bob Geldof

#24. Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul.

Carl Jung

#25. JER29.13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.

Anonymous

#26. Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

John Greenleaf Whittier

#27. The Christian faith allows us to see further and deeper, to appreciate that nature is studded with signs, radiant with reminders, and emblazoned with symbols of God, our creator and redeemer.

Alister E. McGrath

#28. There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

Gerry Abbey

#29. Aunt Rosa, a fussy, angular, wild-eyed old lady, who had lived in a tremulous world of bad news, bankruptcies, train accidents, cancerous growths - until the Germans put her to death, together with all the people she had worried about.

Vladimir Nabokov

#30. Grass is the least rewarding of all status symbols ... The grass does nothing but drink money, exhaust energies, crush spirits, destroy sleep, create tensions and interfere with the watching of baseball games, and sprout insolent signs ordering humans to keep off it.

Russell Baker