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Top 25 Iain Pears Quotes (2025 Update)

Iain Pears Quote: “The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.”

1. “The point of civilization is to be civilized; the purpose of action is to perpetuate society, for only in society can philosophy truly take place.”

Iain Pears Quote: “The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.”

2. “The simple fact that something has not been done, is no proof that it cannot be.”

Iain Pears Quote: “I believe firmly... that science can never contradict true religion, and that if they seem at variance, then that is due to our faulty understanding of one or the other. God gave us the Bible and he gave us nature to show his creation; it is absurd to think he might contradict himself. It is man who fails.”

3. “I believe firmly... that science can never contradict true religion, and that if they seem at variance, then that is due to our faulty understanding of one or the other. God gave us the Bible and he gave us nature to show his creation; it is absurd to think he might contradict himself. It is man who fails.”

Iain Pears Quote: “Who you are is less important than what you seem.”

4. “Who you are is less important than what you seem.”

Iain Pears Quote: “For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”

5. “For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest content with what she had, but she knew an emptiness deep inside her, which began to ache.”

Iain Pears Quote: “Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.”

6. “Virtue comes through contemplation of the divine, and the exercise of philosophy. But it also comes through public service. The one is incomplete without the other. Power without wisdom is tyranny; wisdom without power is pointless.”

Iain Pears Quote: “Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.”

7. “Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in it the prospect of a new beginning and a better world.”

Iain Pears Quote: “He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.”

8. “He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it.”

Iain Pears Quote: “In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.”

9. “In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.”

Iain Pears Quote: “They talk, you know, the dead. Not in words, of course; I am not losing my sanity. They talk in the wind and the rain, in the way the light falls on ruined buildings and dilapidated stone walls.”

10. “They talk, you know, the dead. Not in words, of course; I am not losing my sanity. They talk in the wind and the rain, in the way the light falls on ruined buildings and dilapidated stone walls.”

Iain Pears Quote: “And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.”

11. “And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.”

Iain Pears Quote: “Being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotizes, and your soul is washed by vastness.”

12. “Being by the sea is like a permanent baptism; the light and air hypnotizes, and your soul is washed by vastness.”

Iain Pears Quote: “I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.”

13. “I went to the meeting with some trepidation for, although I might have met a wizard before, I had never encountered an Irishman.”

Iain Pears Quote: “Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.”

14. “Diplomacy and virtue do not make easy companions.”

Iain Pears Quote: “Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.”

15. “Shame, I do believe, is the most powerful emotion known to man; most discoveries and journeys of importance have been accomplished because of the ignominy that would be the result if the attempt was abandoned.”

Iain Pears Quote: “God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think;.”

16. “God forbid that I should ever suffer the shame of publishing a book for money, or of having one of my family so demean themselves. How can one tell who might read it? No worthy book has ever been written for gain, I think;.”

Iain Pears Quote: “For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.”

17. “For what are we but our past? If that is lost, we become nothing.”

Iain Pears Quote: “Besides, it was all very well to criticise the works of others, but in fact it was quite hard, he discovered, to tell a story.”

18. “Besides, it was all very well to criticise the works of others, but in fact it was quite hard, he discovered, to tell a story.”

Iain Pears Quote: “For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.”

19. “For men are held above their fellows by the gossamer of reputation, which is so soft and fragile a breath can blow it away.”

Iain Pears Quote: “She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.”

20. “She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.”

Iain Pears Quote: “Rosie digested the information, but not the cake. Her mother was strict about eating between meals. ‘A fat girl will never find a good man, Rosie,’ was her view, handed down to her by Great-aunt Jessie, a woman of many cliches.”

21. “Rosie digested the information, but not the cake. Her mother was strict about eating between meals. ‘A fat girl will never find a good man, Rosie,’ was her view, handed down to her by Great-aunt Jessie, a woman of many cliches.”

Iain Pears Quote: “And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.”

22. “And here was the moment. The end of it all, for civilization was merely another name for friendship, and friendship was coming to an end.”

Iain Pears Quote: “The painter without the critic is nothing. The good critic can make the mediocre famous, the great obscure. His power is limitless; the artist is his servant, and one day will recognize the fact.”

23. “The painter without the critic is nothing. The good critic can make the mediocre famous, the great obscure. His power is limitless; the artist is his servant, and one day will recognize the fact.”

Iain Pears Quote: “When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it’s not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I.”

24. “When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it’s not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I.”

Iain Pears Quote: “It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do it properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.”

25. “It is cruel that we are granted the desire to know, but denied the time to do it properly. We all die frustrated; it is the greatest lesson we have to learn.”

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