Physics is an organized body of knowledge about nature, and a student of it says that he is learning physics, not nature.… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself, 'Go to! here is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn,… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
The most distinguished advocate and the most distinguished critic of modern captialism were in agreement on one essential point: the job makes… — Rosabeth Moss Kanter Copy Share Image
For most people, the question why be good - as distinguished from merely law abiding - is a simple one. Because God… — Alan Dershowitz Copy Share Image
The form of government, when it has been prudently established, produces citizens distinguished for bravery, justice, and every other good quality; whereas,… — Dionysius of Halicarnassus Copy Share Image
I once asked a distinguished artist what place he gave to labor in art. "Labor," he in effect said, "is the beginning,… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
The ACLU is an organization with a long and distinguished history of fighting to protect freedom of speech. On the other hand,… — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
But the origin of the American Republic is distinguished by peculiar circumstances. Other nations have been driven together by fear and necessity-the… — Noah Webster Copy Share Image
The Greek word for philosopher (philosophos) connotes a distinction from sophos. It signifies the lover of wisdom (knowledge) as distinguished from him… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals… — Abigail Solomon-Godeau Copy Share Image
I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so… — Daniel Boone Copy Share Image
That image of the common drunk is a myth. There is a thing called a maintenance drinker which may very well be… — Lisa Anderson Copy Share Image
Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
While cities are distinguished by their architecture and physical appearance, Bell and de-Shalit make a compelling case that many major world cities--and… — Witold Rybczynski Copy Share Image
To honor with hymns and panegyrics those who are still alive is not safe; a man should run his course and make… — Plato Copy Share Image
But I cannot forget that, at other times I have been deceived in sleep by similar illusions; and, attentively considering those cases,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
It is quite impossible these days to assume anything about people's educational level from the way they talk or dress or from… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
I'm concerned about the negative aspect of political campaigning in american nation, which is a new phenomenon. When I ran for president… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Protestants, from the first, have been distinguished from their opponents by what they do not believe; to throw over one more dogma… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
For three hundred years we have had our focus on the individual. We have distinguished him from the objective world as the… — John Grierson Copy Share Image
How are we going to make our livings in a society becoming increasingly jobless because of hi-tech and outsourcing? Where will we… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
As far as the surface is concerned - oil on canvas, conventionally applied - my pictures have little to do with the… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
... Janis Joplin has one of the most distinguished female voices of the decade. It is a voice that has been aged… — Al Aronowitz Copy Share Image
If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not ‘live no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died… — Charles Simeon Copy Share Image
James Watt was equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and chemist; his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of those sciences, and that… — Humphry Davy Copy Share Image
A brilliant analysis of leadership in democratic, authoritarian, and totalitarian states, Archie Brown's The Myth of the Strong Leader draws on a… — Jack F. Matlock, Jr Copy Share Image
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
A man of distinguished, beautiful eloquence, and persistent, over pressing thought... Ameen Rihani was one of the foremost pioneers of modern illumination.… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The word philosophy, as distinguished from science, is misleading, for it implies that what philosophy contains is impossible to be a systematic… — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
