Quotes on PALMISTRY

rajashri Mon Aug 31, 2015 12:01 pm

"GOD caused signs or seals on the hands of all the sons of men, that the sons of men might know their works"
--Original Hebrew of the Book of Job (chap.xxxvii,verse.7)

"The Hand is the organ of organs, the active agent of the passive powers of the entire system"
-- Aristotle(Greek Philosopher and Scientist)

"The Palmist looks at the wrinkles made by closing the hand and says that they signify character. The Philosopher reads character by what the hand most loves to close."
--'Epigrams" by Ambrose Bierce (Jounalist, writer and Scientist )

"The most pronounced Skeptic will readily admit the greater difference that exists in the Hands of people of different temperaments. Nature does nothing without a purpose.There must therefore be some meaning in such difference"
-- Count Louis Hamon or Cheiro (Palmist, lecturer,editor)

"For the other parts of the body assist the speaker, but HANDS I may say, speak for themselves; they ask, they promise, they invoke, they dismiss, they threaten, they entreat, they deprecate, they express fear, joy, grief, our doubts, our assents, our penitence, they show moderation, profusion, they mark number and time."
----- Quintilian ( Roman Rhetorician)

"We ought to define the hand as belonging exclusively to man, corresponding in its sensibility and motion, to the endowment of his mind"
-- Sir Charles Bell (Scottish Surgeon, Anatomist,Neurologist, Philosophical Theologian)

"In the hand every single bone is distinguishable from one another; each digit has its own peculiar character."
--Sir Richard Owen ( English Biologist, Comparative Anatomist and Paleontologist)

(P.S--Last 3 Quotes are from the site of a skeptic in Palmistry)---
http://users.adam.com.au/bstett/PaPalmistry93.htm

Enjoy!!!

sunny