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Absence Quotes

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In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.
Isaac Newton

Without any other substantiation, the mere hint of divinity would compel me to acknowledge its presence.
Authors on Absence Quotes: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Margaret Atwood Terence McKenna Edsger Dijkstra Ramesh S Balsekar Rajneesh Ambrose Bierce Tacitus Alexander Pope Roland Barthes Jonathan Ive Timothy Keller Jonathan Safran Foer Henry Steele Commager Aristotle Lisa Kleypas Marshall McLuhan Marcus Tullius Cicero Neale Donald Walsch William Shakespeare Jean-Paul Sartre Margaret Thatcher Laura Ingalls Wilder Danny Silk Freya Stark Audrey Niffenegger May Sarton Tucker Carlson J. D. Greear James Howell Bill Johnson Josephine Lawrence Roger Zelazny
2.
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
Karl Popper

Unwillingness to learn
3.
Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.
Mike Murdock

Desolate Is Not The Lack Of Affection, But The Absence Of Guidance.
4.
Silence has a myriad of meanings. In the theater, silence is an absence of words, but never an absence of meaning.
Sanford Meisner

Stillness has a multitude of interpretations. In the theater, stillness represents an absence of dialogue, yet never an absence of significance.
5.
The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.
Wole Soyinka

The gravest menace to liberty is the lack of dissenting views.
6.
Absence, the highest form of presence.
James Joyce

'Distance, the ultimate nearness.'
7.
Since when does absence of evidence equate to evidence of absence?
Prince Ea

When has lack of proof been interpreted as evidence that something does not exist?
8.
Failure is not the absence of success. Failure is the neglect of trying.
Myles Munroe

Neglecting to attempt is the antithesis of accomplishment.
9.
Faith doesn’t mean an absence of fear. It means facing fear and trusting that God’s goodness is greater.
Matt Chandler

Belief does not mean the suppression of trepidation. It means confronting trepidation and putting faith in God's benevolence surpasses all else.
10.
The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Carl Sagan

11.
Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.
Shashi Tharoor

12.
Faith is a response to evidence, not a rejoicing in the absence of evidence.
John Lennox

13.
Peace is not just the absence of violence,peace is when the flowers bloom.
Amrita Pritam

14.
Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
Willa Cather

15.
With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.
Geno Auriemma

16.
Absent in body, but present in spirit.
Paul the Apostle

17.
The longest absence is less perilous to love than the terrible trials of incessant proximity.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

18.
The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.
Herodotus

19.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience upon which primordial shamanism is based is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
Terence McKenna

20.
Separation is the absence of Love, and Love is the absence of separation.
Ramesh S Balsekar

21.
Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.
Taylor Swift

22.
Security is not found in the absence of danger, but in the presence of Jesus.
John Eldredge

23.
Your absence has gone through me
W. S. Merwin

24.
My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.
Daisy Ashford

25.
The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy.
Swami Vivekananda

26.
"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.
Anthony de Mello

27.
Peace must be more than the absence of war.
Helmut Kohl

28.
Free children are not easily influenced; the absence of fear accounts for this phenomenon. Indeed, the absence of fear is the finest thing that can happen to a child.
Alexander Sutherland Neill

29.
Peace is not just the absence of war. Like a cathedral, peace must be constructed patiently and with unshakable faith.
Pope John Paul II

30.
Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct.
Hermann Adler

31.
Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.
Joko Beck

32.
Racism is a system of power and in the absence of power you cannot be considered a racist.
Sister Souljah

33.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart Mill

34.
Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives.
Ed Bliss

35.
Faith is not the absence of doubt; it is continuing to follow Jesus in the midst of doubt.
J. D. Greear

36.
Courage is not the absence of fear, it is taking a step forward when you are afraid.
Ken McGrath

37.
Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
Edsger Dijkstra

38.
Courage is not the absence of fear, courage is acting in spite of fear.
James Neil Hollingworth

39.
Faith is the element that builds the bridge in the absence of concrete evidence.
Howard W. Hunter

40.
In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.
Elijah Wood

41.
I didn't choose anonymity.Instead, I chose absence.
Elena Ferrante

42.
In the absence of the sacred, nothing is sacred - everything is for sale.
Oren Lyons

43.
When my self is not with you, it is nowhere.
Heloise

44.
Love is the absence of Anxiety.
Wilhelm Reich

45.
Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
Sheila Jeffreys

46.
Peace is not the absence of conflict it is authority over chaos.
Danny Silk

47.
Friends,
though absent,
are still present.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

48.
The greatest fault of the day is the absence of stillness.
Hazrat Inayat Khan

49.
Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.
Petrarch

50.
Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.
Hans Urs von Balthasar