23 Whence Quotes for You to Enjoy

We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch - we are going back from whence we came. John F. Kennedy

Sail Ocean Back Tied Came Go Going Whence Whether Sea Watch

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. Socrates

People Own Everyone Must Would Would-Be Take Misfortunes Most Equal Contented Were Heap Depart Common Whence Laid Portion

The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. Albert Camus

Thought Hopeless Fall Own Back Top Punishment Futile Dreadful Would Some More Had Weight Rock Condemned Labor Mountain Than Gods Stone Rolling Whence Reason

Love is higher than the Highest. Love is greater than the Greatest. Yea, it is in a certain sense greater than God; while yet, in the highest sense of all, God is Love, and Love is God. Love being the highest principle is the virtue of all virtues; from whence they flow forth. Jakob Bohme

Love God Love Is Sense Virtue Virtues Higher Highest Principle Greater Greatest God Love Than Whence Being While Forth Certain Flow

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. Leonardo da Vinci

World Bird First Nest Shall Take Writings He Glory Amazement His Fame Human Whence Eternal Flight Filling Bringing

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Joseph Conrad

Life Faith Strength Nature Man Together Grass Earth Draws Blade He Spot His Whence Which Land Rooted Each

I looked about me once again, and suddenly the dancing horses without number changed into animals of every kind and into all the fowls that are, and these fled back to the four quarters of the world from whence the horses came, and vanished. Black Elk

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

God Good Evils Cometh Any Whence Proceed Many

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs. Christopher Marlowe

Truth Virtue Honour Springs Whence

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire. David Brainerd

Daily Spiritual Me World Space Long Empty Space Nothing Earnestly Though Possibly More More And More Spiritual Things Vast Like Obtain Comfort Empty Least Huge Die Whence Which Derived Whole Even Appears Satisfactory Things Desirable Desire Vacuum

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. Adam Ferguson

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by which pressure it emits an incredible number of excessively small threads diverging in every direction from whence we may conclude that as soon as the threads are exposed to the air, they lose their viscosity or gluey quality. Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

Quality Pressure Spider Lose Every Incredible Air Thread Threads Direction Small Excess Part Soon Without Conclude Fix May Whence Anything Cannot Place Which Body Exposed Found Now Number

Whence, then, did the cathedral derive its power? Clearly here: It took back the family into the confidences of religion. It taught man and woman how the human and the divine love could go hand in hand. Jenkin Lloyd Jones

Love Family Religion Man Woman Power Took Back Could Divine Divine Love Clearly Cathedral How Go Hand Hand-In-Hand Did Human Taught Whence Then Derive Here

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

Nature Spring Must Head Source Whence Originality Fountain

As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent; whence must necessarily arise a desire of attaining knowledge with the greatest possible ease. Oliver Goldsmith

Knowledge Natural Become Numerous Ease Possible Must More Attaining Writers Arise Readers Greatest Whence Necessarily Desire

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

Lie Hell Pain Fell Greatest Loss Heaven Whence Where Tis

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

Dark Light Out Cities Civilization Always Been Heat Whence

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

Truth Mormonism Come Principles May Whence Grand Fundamental Fundamental Principles Receive

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