The finest minds seem to be formed rather by efforts at original thinking, by endeavours to form new combinations, and to discover… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight,… — John Venn Copy Share Image
Scepticism and refusal of authority is at the heart of scientific endeavour. Scientific knowledge dictates economic possibilities — David Landes Copy Share Image
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy… — Henry Watson Fowler Copy Share Image
In my serious work I am striving for the essence of things and for goals which are possibly unobtainable. On the other… — Philippe Halsman Copy Share Image
It ought to be the first endeavour of a writer to distinguish nature from custom; or that which is established because it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Thus science strips off, one after the other, the more or less gross materialisations by which we endeavour to form an objective… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
The days of exploration of Shackleton and Scott are long gone. Everything has been climbed, crossed, done. Now what we're exploring are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Set aside all involvements and let the myriad things rest. Zazen is not thinking of good, not thinking of bad. It is… — Dogen Copy Share Image
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution… — Albert Allen Bartlett Copy Share Image
To lose a friend is the greatest of all evils, but endeavour rather to rejoice that you possessed him than to mourn… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
They that endeavour to abolish vice destroy also virtue, for contraries, though they destroy one another, are yet the life of one… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
In every endeavour, people make the difference, and just one person has the power to make a profound difference in the lives… — Lowell Milken Copy Share Image
I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour. — Stephanie Rice Copy Share Image
Patriotism is a salt against rottenness, a glorious spur to high endeavour; it recovers the half-obliterated virtue of loyalty, calls every man… — Percy Dearmer Copy Share Image
If each and everyone endeavours to cooperate and work in as much as his capacity permits, our faith rests upon the Almighty… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere. — Salman Khurshid Copy Share Image
I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that… — Giles Gilbert Scott Copy Share Image
There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And… — James Jeffrey Roche Copy Share Image
A greater awareness in architects and planners of their real value to society could, at the present, result in that rare occurrence,… — Cedric Price Copy Share Image
[The original development of the Spinning Mule was a] continual endeavour to realise a more perfect principle of spinning; and though often… — Samuel Crompton Copy Share Image
“Success shall crown my endeavors. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The entire function of man is to survive. The outermost limit of endeavour is creative work. Anything less is too close to… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I've always been an engineer devoted to the potential of advanced technologies. Like most engineers, I have a keen sense of curiosity… — Min Kao Copy Share Image
I came to the resolve that the attempt was not only worth trying, but should be tried in the very near future… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
I am a very simple man. I am a man first, an artist second. My first obligation is to the welfare of… — Pablo Casals Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Let us, my dear contemporaries, arise above such narrow prejudices. If wisdom be desirable on its own account, if virtue, to deserve… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well… — William Chillingworth Copy Share Image
Ever so often in the history of human endeavour, there comes a breakthrough that takes humankind across a frontier into a new… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image