Quotes About The Pole Star

#1. Be not guided by the will-o'-the-wisp of policy, but by the pole-star of divine authority.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

Maria Mitchell

#3. If I were asked to name, in one word, the pole star round which the mathematical firmament revolves, the central idea which pervades the whole corpus of mathematical doctrine, I should point to Continuity as contained in our notions of space, and say, it is this, it is this!

James Joseph Sylvester

#4. He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it.

Confucius

#5. Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it

Confucius

#6. I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

Dave Pirner

#7. It's madness really that society expects a newly bereaved person to jump through so many hoops.

Nick Alexander

#8. The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.

Louis D. Brandeis

#9. Beautiful it is, and a gleam from the same eternal pole-star visible amid the destinies of men, that all talent, all intellect, is in the first plane moral. What a world were this otherwise!

Thomas Carlyle

#10. My love of creativity is one of my constants, a pole star amid the many constellations of possibilities and personalities that make up all the people I could be.

Claudia Gray

#11. I did apply for more than 200 scholarships and finally I got one, but you are telling me now "God gave it to me!" Don't you think you are too stupid?

M.F. Moonzajer

#12. Prince Arulmozhivarmar is like that pole star. If young men like you follow his ideals, you will achieve your goal in life.

Sumeetha Manikandan

#13. What is the universe? Is it a great 3D movie in which we are the unwilling actors? Is it a cosmic joke, a giant computer, a work of art by a Supreme Being or simply an experiment? The problem in trying to understand the universe is that we have nothing to compare it to.

Heinz Pagels

#14. The lesson of the falling leaves
the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves

Lucille Clifton

#15. A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate.

Ashwin Sanghi

#16. Every time God gives you prosperity and favor to attain His goals and you do not use it, the devil will lead you in another way

Sunday Adelaja

#17. It seemed wrong, she thought, that there should be such beauty in the world on a day like this.

Kate Mosse

#18. We don't have to become big scholars, we don't have to become big supermen. We simply have to become a humble servant of Lord Krishna.

Bhakti Charu Swami

#19. We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

Bertrand Russell

#20. The North Pole, but to someone looking from the equator, it appears to lie just at the horizon. From the difference in the apparent position of the North Star in Egypt and Greece, Aristotle even quoted an estimate that the distance

Stephen Hawking

#21. And Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her. He really believed, that were it not for the inferiority of her connections, he should be in some danger.

Jane Austen