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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine. -- Plato
Multitudes speak of their first love; seldom about their last hate. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world. -- John Ruskin
There are decades in the making of the one man of renown; Multitudes that go unnoticed who must wreathe for him a crown. -- Christopher Paolini
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader. -- Adam Clarke
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them. -- William Allen White
Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. -- Mark Twain
The multitude of books is making us ignorant. -- Voltaire
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. -- Edmund Burke
I have been a multitude of shapes, Before I assumed a consistent form. -- Taliesin
The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me. -- Denis Diderot
True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. -- Ben Jonson
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. -- Arthur Koestler
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues. -- George Dennison Prentice
The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
The common prejudice against philosophy is the result of the incapacity of the multitude to deal with the highest problems. -- John Lancaster Spalding
I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes. -- Richard Flanagan
My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes. -- Paul Twitchell
To write regular verses destroys an infinite number of fine possibilities, but at the same time it suggests a multitude of distant and totally unexpected thoughts. -- Paul Valery
No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older. -- John Dos Passos
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. -- Immanuel Kant
In the scattered settlements of this Diocese, schools and Churches are of necessity for many years few in number, and multitudes of both sexes are growing up in great ignorance. -- John Strachan
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still. -- Goldwin Smith
Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning. -- John W. Dawson
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter. -- Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person. -- Audrey Hepburn
The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world. -- James F. Cooper
There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, 'That's not gonna make me happy.' -- Chris Robinson
I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. -- King George V
When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit. -- Andrew Jackson
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper. -- Charles Mackay
In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. -- Thomas Huxley
He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace. -- Arthur Henderson
I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy. -- Chris Robinson
For the modern physicist, reality is the whole thing, past and future joined in a single history. The sensation of now is just that, a sensation, and different for everyone. Instead of one master clock, we have clocks in multitudes. -- James Gleick
It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that isn't about progress, and wants to - as Walt Whitman put it - 'contain multitudes.' -- Jerry Saltz
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves. -- William Ellery Channing
The Reformers, therefore, as instruments in the hands of God, in delivering the Church from bondage to prelates, did not make it a tumultuous multitude, in which every man was a law to himself, free to believe, and free to do what he pleased. -- Charles Hodge
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me. -- Matthew Modine
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes. -- Steve Prefontaine
When Jesus then is with the multitudes, He is not in His house, for the multitudes are outside of the house, and it is an act which springs from His love of men to leave the house and to go away to those who are not able to come to Him. -- Origen
The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I am large, I contain multitudes -- Walt Whitman
All go free when multitudes offend. -- Lucan
There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes. -- Jerry Saltz
Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes. -- William Goyen
Walk away from your own preoccupations . . . and see the perishing multitudes. -- K.P. Yohannan
Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny. -- Blaise Pascal
He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful -- Philip Massinger
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Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes. -- Leonardo da Vinci
There are many whose tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues. -- Jim Prentice
When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend. -- Oliver Goldsmith
I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes. -- Khalil Gibran
It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages. -- Bill Willingham
Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook. -- Anne Sexton
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite. -- Lao Tzu
The slaying of multitudes should be mourned with sorrow. A victory should be celebrated with the funeral rite. -- Lao Tzu
Silence, when correctly timed, can speak multitudes of words to a person, without any extra effort on your part. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues. -- Thomas Jefferson
We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow. -- John Leo
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque. -- Salman Rushdie
An actress wants to be seen. An actress wants to be loved. By multitudes of people, not just one lone man. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Prayers are not measured or answered by the number of multitudes or pilgrims praying but by the seeds of their faith. -- Ikechukwu Izuakor
Success is not in the possession of multitudes of dreams; it is in the art of processing dreams into multiple realities! -- Israelmore Ayivor
What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace. -- Thomas Bradwardine
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter. -- Amitav Ghosh
Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth. -- John Milton
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions. -- Lucy Stone
And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up. -- Woody Allen
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself. -- Plato
I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that. -- Patti Smith
Your local dreams contain global elements; think global. On no account should you settle with a crowd when God has called you for multitudes! Dare to dream big! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes." -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done. -- D. H. Lawrence
The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed -- Shantideva
Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank. -- John F. Kennedy
...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes. -- Philip Yancey
A well regulated commerce is not, like law, physic, or divinity, to be overstocked with hands; but, on the contrary, flourishes by multitudes, and gives employment to all its professors. -- Joseph Addison
Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks. -- Marvin Minsky
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed. -- Booker T. Washington
The surface personality is only the beginning of what we are. So as we meditate, we still that surface personality, we can see beyond it, and we see that we encompass multitudes. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them. -- Felix Adler
Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I, Seeing that our footing on the Earth is brief- Seeing that her multitudes sweep out to die Mocking at all that passes their belief. -- Herbert Trench
Nothing can save you from hate, empty all your treasures and give it to people and one out of the multitudes will curse you, so live your life to please yourself and not others. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
Vast multitudes of professing Christians fit into the category spoken of here. They call Jesus 'Lord,' but they practice lawlessness. They profess faith in Jesus, but have no regard for the divine law. -- Ray Comfort
There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience. -- Ichabod Spencer
True disciples of Jesus Christ have always been concerned for the one. Jesus Christ is our greatest example. He was surrounded by multitudes and spoke to thousands, yet He always had concern for the one. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The follies, vices, and consequent miseries of multitudes, displayed in a newspaper, are so many admonitions and warnings, so many beacons, continually burning, to turn others from the rocks on which they have been shipwrecked. -- Thomas Hartwell Horne

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