Utterance Quotes - Page 7

• Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Study, Evidence

  Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2009). “The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1845-1846”, p.37, The Floating Press

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• Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement.

  Herbert Spencer

  Law, Speech, Excitement

  Herbert Spencer (1872). “Philosophy of Style: An Essay”, p.38

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• The kernel, the soul — let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances — is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing.

  Mark Twain

  Pride, Hands, Ideas

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.831, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I don't think it's people's utterances that limit the writing. It's the activity itself. It's actually pretty hard to convey to someone who's not a surfer. The sensation is the thing. And it's tough to describe without resorting to clichés or mystical nonsense.

  Tim Winton

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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• One of the things particularly admirable in the public utterances of President Lincoln is a certain tone of familiar dignity, which, while it is perhaps the most difficult attainment of mere style, is also no doubtful indication of personal character. There must be something essentially noble in an elective ruler who can descend to the level of confidential ease without forfeiting respect, something very manly in one who can break through the etiquette of his conventional rank and trust himself to the reason and intelligence of those who have elected him.

  James Russell Lowell

  Character, Break Through, Style

  James Russell Lowell (2015). “Abraham Lincoln”, p.22, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Suppose that the organism is given the problem of determining the analysis of a stimulus at a certain level of representation - e.g., the problem of determining which sequence of words a given utterance encodes. Since, in the general case, transducer outputs underdetermine perceptual analyses, we can think of the solution of such problems as involving processes of nondemonstrative inference. In particular, we can think of each input system as a computational mechanism which projects and confirms a certain class of hyputheses on the basis of a certain body of data.

  Jerry Fodor

  Thinking, Data, Class

  "Wittgenstein, Mind, and Meaning". Book by Meredith Williams, 2002 edition.

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• The negative way [of describing God] is a cardboard prop of Christianity to conceal its unknowable God. When this prop collapses, theistic agnosticism emerges, complete with its package of contradictions and non-sensical utterances.

  George H. Smith

  Negative, Way, Christianity

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• Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance.

  Kenneth Clark

  Form, Articles, Sweeping

  "Civilisation" by Kenneth Clark, (Ch. 13), 1969.

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• I am a spark from the Infinite. I am not flesh and bones. I am light. In helping others to succeed I shall find my own prosperity. In the welfare of others I shall find my own well-being. I am infinite. I am spaceless, I am tireless; I am beyond body thought, and utterance; beyond all matter and mind. I am endless bliss.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Helping Others, Light, Mind

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• President Wilford Woodruff is a man of wisdom and experience, and we respect and venerate him, but we do not believe his personal views or utterances are revelations from God; and when Thus saith the Lord, comes from him, the saints investigate it: they do not shut their eyes and take it down like a pill.

  Charles W. Penrose

  Believe, Eye, Men

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• With Jesus, however, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things to people’s satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all their previous explanations and understandings.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Jesus, People, Understanding

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• Do not let the loud utterances of your own wills anticipate, nor drown, the still, small voice in which God speaks. Bridle impatience till He does. If you cannot hear His whisper, wait till you do. Take care of running before you are sent. Keep your wills in equipoise till God's hand gives the impulse and direction.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Voice, Hands

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• In the absence of any written analogue to speech, the sensible, natural environment remains the primary visual counterpart of spoken utterance, the palpable site, or matrix wherein meaning occurs and proliferates. In the absence of writing, we find ourselves situated in the field of discourse as we are embedded in the natural landscape; indeed, the two matrices are not separable. We can no more stabilize the language and render its meanings determinate than we can freeze all motion and metamorphosis within the land.

  David Abram

  Writing, Land, Two

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• From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we find teachings distinct and definite, authoritative and infallible.

  Arthur Tappan Pierson

  Bible, Christian, Teaching

  Arthur Tappan Pierson (1910). “Knowing the Scriptures: Rules and Methods of Bible Study”

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• The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

  Isidore of Seville

  Catholic, Understanding, Sacred

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• Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and music, though no one hears it. Its variations are limitless and yet it is immutable. Each form of life is a particular reverberation of Number.

  Maurice Druon

  Light, Numbers, Variation

  Maurice Druon (1964). “The memoirs of Zeus”

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• This does not mean that the profession is about to abandon Darwin forever or indorse [sic] my views publicly. The situation remains much as it was: the inner circles are full of doubt, but the public utterances are confident. The doubts may be greater now and the confidence less serene, but it will be a long time before the public is given the full dark picture. There is still need for a dissenting voice, a devil's advocate, a skeptical whistle-blower.

  Norman Macbeth

  Mean, Dark, Circles

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• The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look backward and not forward. But genius looks forward: the eyes of man are set in his forehead, not in his hindhead: man hopes: genius creates. Whatever talents may be, if the man create not, the pure efflux of the Deity is not his; - cinders and smoke there may be, but not yet flame.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Book, School

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.10, Xist Publishing

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• If there be any one principle more widely than another confessed by every utterance, or more sternly than another imprinted on every atom of the visible creation, that principle is not liberty, but law.

  John Ruskin

  Law, Liberty, Principles

  John Ruskin (1861). “Selections from the writings of John Ruskin ... With a portrait”, p.334

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• Accuracy is the basis of style. Words dress our thoughts and should fit; and should fit not only in their utterances, but in their implications, their sequences, and their silences, just as in architecture the empty spaces are as important as those that are filled.

  Freya Stark

  Space, Silence, Style

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.50, I.B.Tauris

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• This is a marvel of the universe:
  To fling a thought across a stretch of sky--
  Some weighty message, or a yearning cry,
  It matters not; the elements rehearse
  Man's urgent utterance, and his words traverse
  The spacious heav'ns like homing birds that fly
  Unswervingly, until, upreached on high,
  A quickened hand plucks off the message terse.

  Josephine Preston Peabody

  Men, Hands, Sky

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• For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name.

  Sara Suleri

  Names, People, Would Be

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• Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words
  To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart;
  Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

  John Milton

  Wise, Truth, Heart

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.46, BookCaps Study Guides

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• With mimicry, with praises, with echoes, or with answers, the poets have all but outsung the bell. The inarticulate bell has found too much interpretation, too many rhymes professing to close with her inaccessible utterance, and to agree with her remote tongue. The bell, like the bird, is a musician pestered with literature.

  Alice Meynell

  Echoes, Bird, Musician

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.225, eBookIt.com

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• A part of all art is to make silence speak. The things left out in painting, the note withheld in music, the void in architecture - all are as necessary and as active as the utterance itself.

  Freya Stark

  Art, Silence, Void

  Freya Stark (2014). “The Zodiac Arch”, p.193, I.B.Tauris

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