Unedifying Quotes

#1. I believe a person of any fine feeling scarcely ever sees a new face without a sensation akin to a shock, for the reason that it presents a new and surprising combination of unedifying elements.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#2. The great argument used now against any theological proposition is not, that it is untrue, or unthinkable, or unedifying, or unscriptural, or unorthodox, but simply, that the modern mind cannot accept it.

Ronald Knox

#3. Ah. My story. Are you certain you wish to hear it? It is long, unlikely, and remarkably unedifying
shameful, even, to come from a minister's lips. Blasphemous, too, properly regarded.

Peter S. Beagle

#4. Discourses were chiefly either polemic arguments or explications of the peculiar doctrines of our sect, and were all to me very dry, uninteresting, and unedifying, since not a single moral principle was inculcated or enforced, their aim seeming to be rather to make us Presbyterians than good

Benjamin Franklin

#5. Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss.

Vishwas Chavan

#6. The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes.

C.S. Lewis

#7. What we think today ... we will become tomorrow. So think great and become greater!

Timothy Pina

#8. Are you sure you want to go out with someone with that kind of history? ... He could have a psychotic break. I read that people get those when they're twenty-eight.

Maggie Stiefvater

#9. As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

Clarence Day

#10. Don't regard yourself as too divine to improve, occasionally, your own works.

Ludwig Van Beethoven

#11. I'd leave, too, if I'd been held hostage against my ovaries for all that time. I'd have done more than just leave a few people unconscious behind me, too.

Alyssa Day

#12. Keep the Feast of the Resurrection. Be a Peter or a John; hasten to the Sepulchre, running together, running against one another, vying in the noble race (cf. Jn. 20:3-4). And even if you be beaten in speed, win the victory of zeal; not looking into the tomb, but going in.

Gregory Of Nazianzus