Famous quotes containing the words strong, probable and/or prime:
“Dearest Nature, strong and kind,
Whispered, “Darling, never mind!
Tomorrow they will wear another face,
The founder thou; these are thy race!””
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: “Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think,” and the like.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)