Penetrate Quotes

• No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

  Ray Davies

  Fancy

  Song: Fancy

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• Imagination is the light by which we can penetrate
  new worlds of thought and experience.

  Charles F. Haanel

  Light, Imagination, World

  Charles F. Haanel, Donald Gordon Carty (2013). “The Master Key System: 2nd Edition: Open the Secret to Health, Wealth and Love, 24 Lesson Workbook”, p.84, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The fundamental law of truth is that it penetrates through all darkness.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Law, Darkness

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• A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Education, Teacher, Light

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.109

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• Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

  Ron White

  Say Anything, Skins, Want

  Interview with David Medsker, www.bullz-eye.com. February 3, 2006.

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• You cannot penetrate events with reportage.

  Michelangelo Antonioni

  Events

  Michelangelo Antonioni (2007). “The Architecture of Vision: Writings and Interviews on Cinema”

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• I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.

  Eyvind Kang

  Sound, Treats, Objects

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We can only penetrate the rind of the earth.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Science, Earth, Geology

  Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon (1817). “A Natural History, General and Particular: Containing the History and Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, the Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, Etc. Etc”, p.6

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• Light can penetrate any amount of darkness but no amount of darkness can penetrate light.

  Meher Baba

  Light, Darkness, Amount

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• Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

  Will Durant

  Mother, Memories, Tired

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• Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Truth, Mind, Unwilling

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• There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.

  Charles Horton Cooley

  Way, Attacking, Surface

  Charles Horton Cooley (1992). “Human Nature and the Social Order”, p.150, Transaction Publishers

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• A man penetrates, conquers, colonizes, plants. A woman receives, surrenders, accepts.

  Douglas Wilson

  Men, Conquer, Surrender

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• Secrets of the incomprehensible wisdom of God, unknown to any besides Himself! Man, sprung up only of a few days, wants to penetrate, and to set bounds to it. Who is it that hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been His counselor?

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

  Atheist, Men, Sprung Up

  Jeanne Marie Bouvier de La Motte Guyon (1820). “The Life and Religious Experience of the Celebrated Lady Guion”, p.119

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• ...behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Law, Connections

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• Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

  Isaac Watts

  Time, Understanding, Depth

  Isaac Watts, Philip Doddridge, David JENNINGS (1819). “The Improvement of the Mind ... By Isaac Watts, D.D. Also His Posthumous Works Published from His Manuscripts by D. Jennings, D.D. and P. Doddridge”, p.21

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• An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

  Thomas Paine

  Peace, War, 4th Of July

  "Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion".

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• No art can develop until it penetrates deeply into the life of the people.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Art, People

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.239, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• The Cinema seems to have been invented to express the life of the subconscious, the roots of which penetrate poetry so deeply

  Luis Bunuel

  Roots, Cinema, Subconscious

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• Our bodies penetrate the sofas upon which we sit and the sofas penetrate our bodies. The motorbus rushes into the houses which it passes, and in their turn the houses throw themselves upon the bus and are blended with it.

  Umberto Boccioni

  House, Body, Sofas

  Manifesto of Futurist Painters in April 1910. "Futurism". Book edited by Didier Ottinger, p. 64, 2008.

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• Humanitarian appeals always help. They penetrate deeper than political tradeoffs.

  Jesse Jackson

  Political, Helping, Humanitarian

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• What in life can love not penetrate?

  Mitch Albom

  Mitch Albom (2013). “The First Phone Call From Heaven”, p.197, Hachette UK

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• Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

  Aeschines

  Lying, Ears, Rumours

  "De Falsa Legatione" by Aeschines, 149,

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• Art is a weapon that penetrates the eyes, the ears, the deepest and subtlest human feelings.

  David Alfaro Siqueiros

  Art, Eye, Feelings

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• William Carey chides his countrymen for deciding it would be impossible for the Gospel to travel over great distances and to penetrate varied cultures when they are willing to face the same trials for the sake of commerce.

  William Carey

  Distance, Would Be, Culture

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