William Drummond Quotes

#1. Scottish philosopher William Drummond, read: "He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot reason is a fool; he who dares not reason is a slave.

Jonathan Eig

#2. Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning.

Robert Smithson

#3. Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

William Drummond

#4. The world's most sensible and the most idiotic person lies within us..
the worst part is we can't say who is who

Chetan Bhagat

#5. On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

William Henry Drummond

#6. Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.

William Henry Drummond

#7. Gymnastics was my calling. I think it chose me in a lot of ways.

Dominique Moceanu

#8. Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#9. If two pilgrims, which have wandered some few miles together, have a heart's grief when they are near to part, what must the sorrow be at the parting of two so loving friends and never-loathing lovers as the body and the soul?

William Drummond

#10. Paul was far more concerned with obeying his divine calling than with gaining man's approval. Only one thing mattered - pleasing the Master.

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#11. Paul Davies's The Mind of God seems to hover somewhere between Einsteinian pantheism and an obscure form of deism - for

Richard Dawkins

#12. Life has me trapped in a cocoon of earth where I must grow and change until the day I sprout wings. And on that day I shall burst free, no longer marooned on a pebble of dust in a universe that only waits for me to find a means to fly.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. Things are finally going my way. In fact, they're going great! I have a chance to live after all! LOG ENTRY: SOL 37 I am fucked, and I'm gonna die!

Andy Weir

#14. As we had no part of our will on our entrance into this life, we should not presume to any on our leaving it, but soberly learn to will which He wills.

William Drummond

#15. No man can run up the natural line of Evolution without coming to Christianity at the top.

William Henry Drummond

#16. I long to kiss the image of my death.

William Henry Drummond

#17. Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

William Drummond

#18. The President wants me to argue that he is as powerful a monarch as Louis XIV, only four years at a time, and is not subject to the processes of any court in the land except the court of impeachment.

Richard M. Nixon

#19. What sweet delight a quiet life affords.

William Drummond

#20. I am a stage actor. I do mostly improv comedy. The only national television stuff is 'Archer' and' Frisky Dingo.'

Amber Nash

#21. Sleep, Silence's child, sweet father of soft rest, Prince whose approach peace to all mortals brings Indifferent host to shepherds and kings Sole comforter to minds with grief oppressed.

William Drummond

#22. Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy thy peace ... on much speaking cometh repentance, but in silence is safety.

William Drummond

#23. I shoot with my pen with the bullets of love.

Debasish Mridha

#24. There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly than the tongue is able to do.

William Drummond

#25. Iron sharpens iron; scholar, the scholar.

William Drummond

#26. So that my life be brave, what though not long?

William Drummond

#27. You jot down ideas, memories, whatever, concerning your real life that somehow parallels the character you're playing, and you incorporate that in your scene work.

Chris Cooper

#28. He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave.

William Drummond

#29. He who dares not reason, is a slave.

William Drummond

#30. Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble.

William Drummond

#31. Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye, two minutes, will make the whole day different.

William Henry Drummond

#32. I think an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. The whole subject [of God] is beyond the scope of man's intellect.

Charles Darwin

#33. Men tell us sometimes there is no such thing as an atheist. There must be. There are some men to whom it is true that there is no God. They cannot see God because they have no eye. They have only an abortive organ, atrophied by neglect.

William Henry Drummond

#34. Do not quarrel ... with your lot in life. Do not complain of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment, the vexations you have to stand, the small and sordid souls you have to live and work with.

William Henry Drummond

#35. I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic.

William Drummond

#36. He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not, is a slave.

William Drummond