“Diffusion is essentially a social process through which people talking to people spread an innovation.” — Dwight McNeill Copy Share Image
Even the disappointing diffusion of a sheer curtain can suggest the most colorful bouquet of unspeakable secrets. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions. — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
I'm building on purpose. I'm building that tipping point. I'm building that law of diffusion of innovation. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Social and political life is a Society for the Diffusion of Mendacity . — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Over a long period of time, the main force in favor of greater equality has been the diffusion of knowledge and skills. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
A self-conscious society will therefore endeavor to limit sect forming by providing for the widest possible diffusion of secular knowledge. — Edward Alsworth Ross Copy Share Image
Safe popular freedom consists of four things, the diffusion of liberty, of intelligence, of property, and of conscientiousness, and cannot be compounded… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
The clergy, with a few honorable exceptions, have in all modern countries been the avowed enemies of the diffusion of knowledge, the… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will… — Ezra Stiles Copy Share Image
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion. — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
The diffusion of information and the arraignment of all abuses at the bar of public reason, I deem [one of] the essential… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The necessary precondition for the birth of science as we know it is, it would seem, the diffusion through society of the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
The struggle to emerge out of the past, clean of memories; the inadequacy of our hearts to cut life into separate and… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We consider ourselves to be free because no one in our society is allowed unlimited powerno leader, faction, party or 'class', no… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott Copy Share Image
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people.… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
When I came to the Senate in 1997, the world was being redefined by forces no single country controlled or understood. The… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
In the late 60s, 70s and possibly early 80s, social scientists were interested in researching the diffusion of innovation and studying the… — Ruth Simmons Copy Share Image
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres… — William Hague Copy Share Image
This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of… — Benjamin Haydon Copy Share Image
We have heard of a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It is said that knowledge is power, and the like.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The logic of all this seems to be that it is all right for young people in a democracy to learn about… — Carl L. Becker Copy Share Image
If dictatorship is the concentration of power, freedom consists in its diffusion. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
The principal mechanism for convergence at the international as well as the domestic level is the diffusion of knowledge. — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing. — Henry James Sumner Maine Copy Share Image
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty. — James Madison Copy Share Image
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The stupidity of a stupid man is exercised in a restricted field; the stupidity of an intelligent man has a much wider… — Peter Ustinov Copy Share Image
On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key.… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent… — Matt Blunt Copy Share Image
So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Innumerable spirits and souls, when spread out through the same space, do not interfere with each other such that the diffusion of… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image