Top 189 Penetrating Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation.
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things.
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.
The deep sea is the largest museum on earth, it contains more history than all the museums on land combined, and yet we're only now penetrating it.
For when one considers the universe, can anyone be so simple-minded as not to believe that the Divine is present in everything, pervading, embracing and penetrating it?
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice.
The scream of the twelve-inch shrapnel is more penetrating than the hiss from a thousand Jewish newspaper vipers. Therefore let them go on with their hissing.
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.
In reality things reveal nothing to us. It is people who, by looking into at things, discover a way of penetrating the Soul of the World.
We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
I encourage all you superior seekers in the secret depths to devote yourselves to penetrating and clarifying the self, as earnestly as you would put out a fire on the top of your head.
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge.
This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.
But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers.
My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.
The application of a strong magnetic field enables the measurement of the energy of the most penetrating particles to be carried out, and the method may be capable of still further extension and improvement.
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases.
The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.
Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition.
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
I plunged eagerly and passionately into the wilderness, as if in the hope of thus penetrating into the very heart of this Nature, powerful and maternal, there to blend with her living elements.
The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives.
Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired.
Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion!
Let us not depreciate Earth. There is no atom in it but is alive and astir in the all-penetrating splendor of God. From the infinitesimal to the infinite, everything is striving to express the thought of His Presence with which it overflows.
I was always good at penetrating in Europe, but in Europe, you don't have so many shot-blockers as there are in the NBA, so it was easier.
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half.
When I reviewed Hayek's book, The Pure Theory of Capital, it is my sincere conviction that this work contains some of the most penetrating thoughts on the subject that have ever been published.
I have long aspired to make our company a noble prototype of industry, penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and wholesomely prosperous in economics.
There are no subtleties in a war zone. I think that's why comedy does so well there. It goes right for the gut. So those punch lines start penetrating the bullet-proof vests.
Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers.
I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality
You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.
The increasing influence of the Bible is marvelously great, penetrating everywhere. It carries with it a tremendous power of freedom and justice guided by a combined force of wisdom and goodness.
The spiritual journey is not about acquiring something outside yourself, rather, you are penetrating deep layers and veils to return to the deepest truth of your own being.
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.
But now the giant heads of Plato and Socrates, each with an expression of penetrating wisdom carved on his white features, surveyed the river and the melon beds beyond.
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you.
The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies.
That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
For in 1900 all electromagnetic radiation of longer wavelengths was already known at least to the extent that one could not seek in it the more striking characteristics of X-rays such as, for example, the strong penetrating power.
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics.
By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe.
He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours?
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.
President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating.
