Accounts Quotes · Page 39

A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge…

— Karl Mannheim

You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in…

— Stephen Fry

The herald, earth-accredited, of heaven,--which when men hear, they think upon heaven's king, and run the items over of the account to…

— James Sheridan Knowles

[I'm often called a Deviant Calvinist] but that only goes to underline the point I'm trying to make about the need to…

— Oliver D. Crisp

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of…

— Anonymous

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys…

— Robert Browning

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences…

— Benoit Mandelbrot

When you follow your heart instead of worrying about how to fatten your bank account, you can attract more ways to do…

— Daylle Deanna Schwartz

Science begets knowledge; opinion, ignorance.

— Hippocrates

The generation of Isaiah did not require the detailed description; his account, "I saw the Lord," &c., sufficed. The generation of the…

— Maimonides

Human-centered design. Meeting people where they are and really taking their needs and feedback into account. When you let people participate in…

— Melinda Gates

Here in Indiana, we run a nationally-recognized program called the Healthy Indiana Plan. The Healthy Indiana Plan offers the uninsured an affordable…

— Mike Pence

I think any public policy that doesn't account for the fact that most CO2 emissions don't come from the United States, but…

— Todd Young

One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right…

— Murasaki Shikibu

As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this…

— George Washington

Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous…

— Barbara Tuchman

To the extent that your work takes into account the needs of the world, it will be menaingful; to the extent that…

— Laurence Boldt

How then can we account for the persistence of the myth that inside the empty nest lives a shattered and depressed shell…

— Lillian B. Rubin

Some of the craftiest scoundrels that ever walked this earth . . . will gravely jot down in diaries the events of…

— Charles Dickens

In the light of fuller day, Of purer science, holier laws.

— Charles Kingsley

Through it [Science] we believe that man will be saved from misery and degradation, not merely acquiring new material powers, but learning…

— Ray Lankester

I have a traditional view of the afterlife... heaven, hell and judgments. But the accounts of those places are scant ,and I…

— Doug TenNapel

Science owes more to the steam engine than the steam engine owes to science.

— Lawrence Joseph Henderson

Biblical archaeology was developed early in this century in an effort to substantiate the authenticity of the Biblical account. It's by now…

— Noam Chomsky

We have two distinct types of political organization to take into account; and clearly, too, when their origins are considered, it is…

— Albert J. Nock