The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
Only freedom from prejudice and tireless zeal avail for the most holy of the endeavours of mankind, the practice of the true… — Samuel Hahnemann Copy Share Image
I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
The sincere teachers of their youth should be met, not with an intention to dictate to them, but to give additional force… — Joseph Lancaster Copy Share Image
To succeed in any endeavour it needs innovative plan & preparation. Without plan and preparation any endeavour is a boat without a sailor. — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
...The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
One man should not be afraid of improving his posessions, lest they be taken away from him, or another deterred by high… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Let it be our endeavour, let it be our task, to keep alight the torch of imperial patriotism, to hold fast the… — Joseph Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
[In research on bacteria metabolism] we have indeed much the same position as an observer trying to gain an idea of the… — Marjory Stephenson Copy Share Image
For me, it's just a normal artistic endeavour to explore the dark side. Certainly, I'm not alone in it. Artists generally don't… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“The guilt you felt when you were smiling and others were suffering, the guilt you felt when you were petty with friends… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image
It is clear, from these considerations, that the three methods of classifying mankind-that according to physical characters, according to language, and according… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety, and the quiet mind. Spare to us… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and… — Mahatma Gandhi 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 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
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
To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization. — Albert Einstein 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
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
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
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
There is no human failure greater than to launch a profoundly important endeavour and then leave it half done. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth Copy Share Image
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image