Quotes of: Piety Keyword

Saying of the Prophet Humility Humility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Caravan of Dreams

You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.

Craig Brown

John Oldman: Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistake they bring to the lessons.

The Man from Earth

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

Georges Duhamel

My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

George Santayana

In general, when a novel manipulates its material to conform to the pieties of the day, or alternatively to attack those pieties for no other reason than the visibility such an attack will generate, when its literary tropes are all too familiar, its ...

Tim Parks

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road holiness.

Prayer for Beginners

For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.

Cynthia Ozick

The hypocrisy and false piety of the deniers aside, the relationships of gays have no effect on heteros. Especially all the heteros who've done such a marvelous job of debasing marriage on their own all these many years.

John Ridley

Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.

Ideas Have Consequences

Piety, then, is that which is dear to the gods, and impiety is that which is not dear to them.

Plato I: Euthyphro. Apology. Crito. Phaedo. Phaedrus.

Yes, yes, children must early be made to practise piety, godliness, and propriety; a person of good breeding is one into whom 'good maxims' have been instilled and impressed, poured in through a funnel, thrashed in and preached in.

Max Stirner

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

George Washington

O Woman - Allah has made you the Queen of Piety and Modesty, Don't belittle yourself to be the slave of unlawful admiration and mortal fame & fortune.

Ayisha Tabbassum

[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a scalpel for excising the tumor of metaphysical belief. (130)

Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'

Friedrich Nietzsche

My atheism, like that of , is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.

Soliloquies in England & Later Soliloquies

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Omar Khayyam

For each person I lost I found a new layer of grief to cover myself with, and each time I tried to bring something of their essence into my own being - be it unconditional love, kindness and piety.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

Edward Fitzgerald