Infinite Quotes

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.
Henri Poincare

Useful, Useless, Avoiding

There is a concept that is the corrupter and destroyer of all others. I speak not of Evil, whose limited empire is that of ethics; I speak of the infinite.
Jorge Luis Borges

Evil, Others, Speak

In the order of literature, as in others, there is no act that is not the coronation of an infinite series of causes and the source of an infinite series of effects.
Jorge Luis Borges

Others, Act, Order

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
Conrad Hall

Job, Light, Speak

The sky is an infinite movie to me. I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there.
K. D. Lang

Tired, Looking, Movie

I've been asked to do a retrospective since I was about 28 and I always thought that was a bit odd. It's great to look forward as an artist because in the future the possibilities are infinite; you look back and it's all fixed so it's a scary thing.
Damien Hirst

Great, Future, Forward

The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation.
Elias Canetti

Single, Writing, Night

To those leaning on the sustaining infinite, today is big with blessings.
Mary Baker Eddy

Today, Blessings, Big

I realise that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.
Georg Cantor

Nature, Place, Opinions

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
David Brainerd

God, Wisdom, Heart

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God, in his infinite mercy, has seen fit to place us, to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life, whatever it may be.
Ann Plato

Life, Education, Good

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.
Knute Rockne

Genius, Taking, Capacity

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
Sydney Smith

Fact, Ourselves, Within

Only by living absurdly is it possible to break out of this infinite absurdity.
Julio Cortazar

Living, Possible, Break

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.
Clifford Geertz

Done, Call, Name

Every film is its own experience, its own planet, its own family. It seems infinite when you're working on it, and then it's suddenly very finite, and it's done.
Diane Lane

Family, Experience, Done

I don't know what it is, exactly, but there's a negative drag on film sets after the second week or so, a mutinous vibe because the infinite capacities of the directors and everybody else become quite finite and everybody's under the gun and it becomes work.
Diane Lane

Work, After, Negative

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
Samuel Rutherford

Cannot, Grace, Sinners

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.
Guy Laliberte

Creativity, Themes, Apply

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.
Anna Freud

Life, Ocean, Boat

The sovereign state has in our times become a lethal danger to human civilization because technical developments enable it to employ an infinite number and variety of means of destruction.
Christian Lous Lange

Human, Become, Means

Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing.
Norman Ralph Augustine

Simple, Systems, Testing

Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.
Jon Landau

Good, Together, Around

Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom.
Joshua Foer

Future, Knowledge, Wisdom

The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did have abundant resources. But now we are gradually exhausting our fisheries, our topsoil, our water. On top of that, we're coming to the end of world resources.
Jared Diamond

End, Long, Thought

I think if I had been writing fiction, where the work is entirely dependent on the writer's creativity and the potential directions the narrative might take are infinite, I might have frozen.
Laura Hillenbrand

Work, Writing, Creativity

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.
Mark Haddon

Care, Enough, Lives

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
Adam Clarke

Power, Wisdom, Existence

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
Adam Clarke

Happiness, Nature, Perfect

The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Road, Fall, Sensible

Share with your Friends

Everyone likes a good quote - don't forget to share.

Related Definition

Infinite Definition

Dante Alighieri

Popular Topics

Friendship Quotes

Motivational Quotes

Inspirational Quotes

Get Social with BrainyQuote

BrainyQuote Desktop

BrainyQuote Mobile

Site

Quote of the Day

Social

BQ on Pinterest

Syndication

Funny Quote Feed

Love Quote Feed

Nature Quote Feed

About Us