Immense Quotes

What we know is not much. What we do not know is immense. (Pierre-Simon Laplace)
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. View quote
Henry James
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. View quote
Mary McCarthy
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. View quote
Guy Debord
The immense majority of human biographies are a gray transit between domestic spasm and oblivion. View quote
George Steiner
The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover. View quote
Louis de Broglie
I didn't realize that television has gone through immense changes and has become very progressive. View quote
Kiefer Sutherland
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics. (Neil Kinnock)
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. View quote
Joseph Roux
Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. View quote
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Often it is only after immense intellectual effort, which may have continued over centuries, that humanity at last succeeds in achieving knowledge of a concept in its pure form, by stripping off the irrelevant accretions which veil it from the eye of the mind. View quote
Gottlob Frege
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V. View quote
Walter Scott
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for. View quote
Saul Bellow
The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence. View quote
Albert Bushnell Hart
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening, so there was immense growth for industrial training films, documentaries to do with the mining, and the outback world. View quote
Ann Macbeth
You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense. (Christopher Meloni)
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. View quote
Steve Buyer
England was nothing, compared to continental nations until she had become commercial...until about the middle of the last century, when a number of ingenious and inventive men, without apparent relation to each other, arose in various parts of the kingdom, succeeded in giving an immense impulse to all the branches of the national industry; the result of which has been a harvest of wealth and prosperity, perhaps without a parallel in the history of the world. View quote
Samuel Smiles
Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question of such immense and worldwide importance, both from the humane and Christian stand-point? View quote
Henry Dunant
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. View quote
Kofi Annan