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Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops -- H. L. Mencken
Penetrating a company's security often starts with the bad guy obtaining some piece of information that seems so innocent, so everyday and unimportant, that most people in the organization don't see any reason why the item should be protected and restricted. -- Kevin Mitnick
The novel is a penetrating study of morals and ethics. -- Bille August
There are few retreats, that can escape the penetrating eye of avarice. -- Thomas Clarkson
She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel. -- P. G. Wodehouse
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid. -- George Jean Nathan
Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being? -- Igor Stravinsky
Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual. -- Octavio Paz
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve. -- Khalil Gibran
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. -- John Shelby Spong
The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that. -- Dmitri Mendeleev
In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined. -- Trofim Lysenko
A story is a kind of biopsy of human life. A story is both local, specific, small, and deep, in a kind of penetrating, layered, and revealing way. -- Lorrie Moore
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. -- Frederic Farrar
The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices. -- Ivan Pavlov
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. -- Kenneth Grahame
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. -- Jeff Ross
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries. -- Hugh Mackay
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. -- Victor Francis Hess
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. -- Chris Bangle
It is remarkable by how much a pinch of malice enhances the penetrating power of an idea or an opinion. Our ears, it seems, are wonderfully attuned to sneers and evil reports about our fellow men. -- Eric Hoffer
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. -- Max von Laue
Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy. -- Don Tapscott
I told Mother of my decision to study medicine. She encouraged me to speak to Father... I began in a roundabout way... He listened, looking at me with that serious and penetrating gaze of his that caused me such trepidation, and asked whether I knew what I wanted to do. -- Rita Levi-Montalcini
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many of the fears and hopes of those times embedded in those characters. Even in throwaway bits of contemporary culture you can often find some penetrating insights into the real world around us. -- Alan Moore
You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. -- Michael Cunningham
President Kennedy is very democratic and very penetrating. -- Marilyn Monroe
Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms. -- Aldous Huxley
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. -- Hermann Hesse
The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity. -- Xun Zi
I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality -- Chris Colfer
With a penetrating vision you can dissipate the obstruction, remove the obstacle, dissolve the wrong condition. -- Ernest Holmes
The gospel of Jesus Christ is that penetrating light which shines through the darkness of our lives. -- Thomas S. Monson
After a while, though, even the deepest sorrow faltered, even the most penetrating despair lost its scalpel edge. -- Richard Matheson
Life consists in penetrating the unknown, and fashioning our actions in accord with the new knowledge thus acquired. -- Leo Tolstoy
This temporal fire is but a painted fire in respect of that penetrating and real fire in hell. -- Jeremy Taylor
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. -- Aldous Huxley
The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind. -- John Steinbeck
Once again you've put your keen and penetrating mind to the task and as usual come to the wrong conclusion! -- J. K. Rowling
All art is a vision penetrating the illusions of reality, and photography is one form of this vision and revelation. -- Ansel Adams
We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony. -- Robert Schumann
Poetry has historically been allied with religion and morals; it has served the purpose of penetrating the mysterious depths of things. -- John Dewey
He looked at the box with interest. 'Well, well. Five speeds. Heat and massage. Deep, penetrating action. Sure this isn't yours? -- Jeaniene Frost
This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word. -- T. S. Eliot
By penetrating to the core of our own being, we can make contact with the consciousness at the center of the universe. -- Richard Smoley
What she wants to say has to do not only with joy but with the penetrating, constant fear that is joy's other half. -- Michael Cunningham
The penetrating brilliance of swords, wielded by followers of the Way, strikes at the evil enemy, lurking deep within, their own souls and bodies. -- Morihei Ueshiba
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. -- Carlo Carra
For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. -- Hermann Hesse
You need intelligence, and you need to look. You need a gaze, a wide gaze, penetrating and roving - thats what's useful for art. -- Toni Morrison
I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time. -- Vera Brittain
My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free. -- Vera Caspary
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. -- Matthew Arnold
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. -- T. S. Eliot
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. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
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. -- Adolf Hitler
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. -- Paulo Coelho
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? -- Gregory of Nyssa
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. -- Edwin Land
. . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare- Diary of A Combat Fiend -- Soke Behzad Ahmadi
There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other. -- P. L. Travers
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. -- Robert Ballard
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. -- Sun Tzu
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. -- Ram Dass
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. -- J.G. Farrell
The more we study nature the grander does she appear. Science, by penetrating her secrets, often shows us the hidden and imposing forces exist where we only see inertia. -- Felix Archimede Pouchet
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. -- Frederic Farrar
We worked to develop our own operations to advance U.S. counterterrorism objectives by penetrating terrorist safe havens and collecting intelligence that would inform policy and enable our own operations. -- Cofer Black
He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers. -- Robert Cormier
The soul is a temple; and God is silently building it by night and by day. Precious thoughts are building it; disinterested love is building it; all-penetrating faith is building it. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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. -- Thomas More
Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. -- Leo Tolstoy
When you come to be sensibly touched, the scales will fall from your eyes; and by the penetrating eyes of love you will discern that which your other eyes will never see. -- Francois Fenelon
A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited. -- Drew Ginn
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. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart. -- Albert Camus
On with you, horse-taming Trojans! Never give Greeks best in your will to fight! They are not made of stone or iron. Their flesh can't keep out penetrating spears when they are hit. -- Homer
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. -- Fritz Machlup
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. -- Paul Gauguin
He had a voice you couldn't miss: strong and penetrating with strange vowels that sounded different from the accents of other English speakers even to me. I later discovered that he was Canadian. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
[In natural history,] great discovery often requires a map to a hidden mine filled with gems then easily gathered by conventional tools, not a shiny new space-age machine for penetrating previously inaccessible worlds. -- Stephen Jay Gould
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. -- Hakuin Ekaku
... I felt that I was not penetrating to the full depth of my impression, that something more lay behind that mobility, that luminosity, something which they seemed at once to contain and to conceal. -- Marcel Proust
Our life is nothing, it is true, but our life is divine. A breath of nature annihilates us, but we surpass nature in penetrating far beyond her vast phantasmagoria to the changeless and the eternal. -- Henri Frederic Amiel

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