Replete Quotes
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Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
william cowper— 1785 The Task, bk.6,'The Winter Walk at Noon', l.89-91.
History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?
robert todd carroll— "Repressed memory therapy (RMT)", The Skeptic's Dictionary
Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one,Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwellsin heads replete with thoughts of other men,Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
william cowper— Line 88.
[ William Tyndale is a man] replete with venomous envy, rancour and malice.
cromwell, thomas, 1st earl of essex— Letter to Stephen Vaughan after May 1531. (Merriman, i. p. 335.)
The last time I ever witnessed a movement that had these qualifications: (1) a totally monolithic movement with a single point of view and a single authoritarian head; (2) replete with fanatical followers who are prepared and programmed to do anything their master says; (3) supplied by absolutely unlimited funds; (4) with a hatred of everyone on the outside; (5) with suspicion of parents, against their parents -- the last movement that had those qualifications was the Nazi youth movement, and I'll tell you, I'm scared.
maurice davis— Rabbi Maurice Davis, quoted in Ronald Enroth, Ph.D.'s Youth, brainwashing, and the extremist cults, 1977, Grand Rapids: Zondervan Pub. House.
There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
— Henry Fielding, p. 24. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
O Lord, that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!
— King Henry, scene i
It is a piece of writing replete with those typical Japanese wistful and melancholic evocations of ephemerality. It was written a thousand years ago almost exactly to the year the film was made, and it was written by a woman.
— Sei Sh?nagon, in Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope all-story 2, p.237
My dear Kepler, what would you say of the learned here, who, replete with the pertinacity of the asp, have steadfastly refused to cast a glance through the telescope? What shall we make of this? Shall we laugh, or shall we cry?
Galileo Galilei— Letter to Johannes Kepler (1610), as quoted in The Crime of Galileo (1955) by Giorgio De Santillana.
