Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety, a perfect liberty of thought and of worship must be allowed to the individual in his approach to the Infinite.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
~By Jimmy Carter ~
My rights all spring front an infinitely nobler source - from favor and grace of God.
~By Gerrit Smith ~
The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
~By Nick Lowe ~
What grieves me most in my past offenses, O my loving God, is not so much the punishment I have deserved, as the displeasure I have given You, Who are worthy of infinite love.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
~By Henri Poincare ~
Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.
~By Edwin Hubbel Chapin ~
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
~By David Icke ~
God Almighty is, to be sure, unmoved by passion or appetite, unchanged by affection; but then it is to be added that He neither sees nor hears nor perceives things by any senses like ours; but in a manner infinitely more perfect.
~By Joseph Butler ~
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
~By Thomas Traherne ~
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
~By David Hilbert ~
The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
~By Andrew Denton ~
Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
~By Julio Cortazar ~
Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility.
~By E. F. Schumacher ~
Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.
~By Abraham Lincoln ~
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
~By Rabindranath Tagore ~
Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people.
~By John Strachan ~
We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.
~By Zelda Fitzgerald ~
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
~By William Shakespeare ~
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
~By Knute Rockne ~
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.
~By Lyman Abbott ~
To go back and read Swift and Defoe and Samuel Johnson and Smollett and Pope - all those people we had to read in college English courses - to read them now is to have one of the infinite pleasures in life.
~By David McCullough ~
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
~By Ann Plato ~
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
~By David Hilbert ~
Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.
~By Tennessee Williams ~
Evil is easy, and has infinite forms.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Alcohol gives you infinite patience for stupidity.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.
~By Guy Laliberte ~
Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.
~By Margaret Mead ~
Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
The past has infinite value if one learns from it.
~By Ken Hensley ~
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.
~By Mary Webb ~
I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
~By Laura Hillenbrand ~
To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.
~By Leonhard Euler ~
We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.
~By Martin Luther King, Jr. ~
I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.
~By Andrew Carnegie ~
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
~By Alfred Russel Wallace ~
The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
~By Miroslav Vitous ~
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored is infinitely more successful.
~By Nicolas de Chamfort ~
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
~By John Calvin ~
To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.
~By Rudolph Valentino ~
I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.
~By David Icke ~
The infinite God can not by us, in the present limitation of our faculties, be comprehended or conceived.
~By William Hamilton ~
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
Language makes infinite use of finite media.
~By Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt ~
The fact that our task is exactly commensurate with our life gives it the appearance of being infinite.
~By Franz Kafka ~
When the Internet publicity began, I remember being struck by how much the world was not the way we thought it was, that there was infinite variation in how people viewed the world.
~By Eric Schmidt ~
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
~By W. H. Auden ~
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.
~By James Newman ~
I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.
~By Hippolyte Taine ~
It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
True, He is infinite Majesty, but He is also infinite Goodness and infinite Love. There can be no greater Lord than God; neither can there be a more ardent lover than He.
~By Alphonsus Liguori ~
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
In short, it is not that evolutionary naturalists have been less brazen than the scientific creationists in holding science hostage, but rather that they have been infinitely more effective in getting away with it.
~By Phillip E. Johnson ~
I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.
~By Johann Heinrich Lambert ~
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
~By Robert Anton Wilson ~
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
~By Sydney Smith ~
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
~By Anna Freud ~
There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago.
~By Hannes Alfven ~
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
~By Simone Weil ~
True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.
~By Salvador Dali ~
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
~By David Brainerd ~
Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.
~By Paul Tillich ~
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
~By Adam Clarke ~
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
~By Howard Hodgkin ~
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
~By John Muir ~
It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
~By Yahoo Serious ~
This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
~By Barbara Smith ~
I hope and trust the infinite, the eternal, and merciful and loving God. I worship Him and feel no guilt in my heart before him for what I am going to do.
~By Alex Campbell ~
Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.
~By Thomas Huxley ~
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
~By Ansel Adams ~
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent me from freely considering figures hanging on a balance imagined to be at an infinite distance beyond the confines of the world?
~By Evangelista Torricelli ~
And time itself? Time was a never-ending medium that stretched into the future and the past - except there was no future and no past, but an infinite number of brackets, extending either way, each bracket enclosing its single phase of the Universe.
~By Clifford D. Simak ~
In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.
~By Kenneth Scott Latourette ~
Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable; so that you could go back to it time and time again, not necessarily immediately but over a space of time, and see new things in it, or new ways of looking at it.
~By Peter Greenaway ~
Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious.
~By Jonathan Edwards ~
There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
If a thing loves, it is infinite.
~By William Blake ~
The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and an infinite scorn in our hearts.
~By Benito Mussolini ~
We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.
~By Nick Mancuso ~
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