(263 quotes found)
“Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly, with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession”
Isaac Watts
“She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.”
P. G. Wodehouse
“Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.”
Boy George
“The bullet never penetrated his skull,”
Jay Kay
“There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.”
Charles Horton Cooley
“Dear me, Watson, is it possible that you have not penetrated the fact that the case hangs upon the missing dumb-bell?”
Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.
“To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“Donne, I suppose, was such another / Who found no substitute for sense. / To seize and clutch and penetrate; / Expert beyond experience.”
T.S. Eliot
“No one can penetrate me, They only see what's in their own fancy, always”
Ray Davies
“The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them”
Diogenes
