Top 342 Whence Quotes & Sayings

Nature is the fountain's head, the source from whence all originality must spring.

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

Do not forget from whence you've come.

People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.

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

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can move us to tears. Science is reticent too when it is a question of the great Unity – the One of Parmenides – of which we all somehow form part, to which we belong. The most popular name for it in our time is God – with a capital ‘G’. 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.

And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets?

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

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

If one watches whence the notion 'I' arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas. When a mantra is repeated, if one watches whence that mantra sound arises, the mind gets absorbed there; that is tapas.

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

The feather, whence the pen Was shaped that traced the lives of these good men, Dropped from an angel's wing.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

Whence are we, and why are we? Of what scene The actors or spectators?

The moods of love are like the wind, And none knows whence or why they rise.

Whence, then, this worship of the past? The centuries are conspirators against the sanity and authority of the soul.

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end?

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

Apollo, sacred guard of earth's true core, Whence first came frenzied, wild prophetic word.

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

Then I turned to him commanding That he go the way he came, whence he came. But he answered me in sorrow, "May the Past not seek to borrow From the Present without blame - Just one memory from its store, Ere it goes to come no more, Back the pathway that it came, whence it came?"

Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

What is there in places empty of matter? and Whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them? Whence is it that Nature doth nothing in vain? and Whence arises all that order and beauty which we see in the world? To what end are comets? and Whence is it that planets move all one and the same way in orbs concentrick, while comets move all manner of ways in orbs very excentrick? and What hinders the fixed stars from falling upon one another?

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question. Science has no answer to it.

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.

Whence has come thy lasting power.

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

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

Love always has its price, come whence it may.

All souls were created in the beginning and are finding their way back to whence they came.

Explore the River of the Soul; whence or in what order you have come.

Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?

Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

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

The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold.

Ask not from whence I came for the gravity of the future pulls me ever forward.

They were two ruined souls doomed to wander their minds, if not the earth, trying to remember from whence they came.

A breeze passes in the night. When did it spring up? Whence does it come? Whither is it going? No man knows.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Whence comes war and fighting, and factions? Whence but from the body and the lust of the body? Wars are occasioned by the love of money, and money has to be acquired for the same and service of the body.

Let us suppose the mind to be, as we say, white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas; how comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store which the busy and boundless fancy of man has painted on it with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

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

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

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

Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.

If love be good, from whence cometh my woe?

Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

Tis not where we lie but whence we fell; the loss of Heaven's the greatest pain in Hell.

Confidence, like the soul, never returns whence it has once departed

Drink! For you know not whence you came nor why.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

Let them make their war. Whence come night and day? Whence will the eagle become gray? Whence is it that night is dark? Whence is it that the linnet is green? The ebullition of the sea, How is it not seen?

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

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.

Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more?

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.