Quotes of: Whence Keyword

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

Boethius

Thinking of where you are going, you forget from whence you came.

Portuguese

Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.

James Baldwin

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Christopher Marlowe

Virtue is the fount whence honor springs.

Christopher Marlowe

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Charles de Secondat

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

James Montgomery

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Damn you villains, who are you? And from whence came you?

Edward Teach

Hjuki and Bil Hjuki and Bil chased the moon, With waters from Byrgir’s well, Upon their shoulders they did share, Simul the pole and Saegr. ‘Mani,’ they cried and chased the sky, ‘From Byrgir whence we came, To water the earth and water your ...

Dolor and Shadow

Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God. The atheist does not say that there is no God, but he says 'I know not what you mean by God. I am without the idea of God. The word God to me is a sound conveying no clear or distinct affirmation. I ...

The Freethinker's Text-Book: Man: Whence and How? Religion: What and Why?

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Jean Paul

Money does not smell of the mire whence it came; it has the glorious scent of what will be.

Love

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

Max Planck

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Edmund Burke

The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.

Francis Atterbury

What did this mean? Who was I? What was I? Whence did I come? What was my destination?

Frankenstein

Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

Omar Khayyam

'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; the loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell.

Pedro Calderon de la Barca

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

Lincoln Steffens

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of positive reality, in the strict sense, setting aside the limits or bounds in things which are limited.

Gottfried Leibniz