[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image
The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and… — William Arthur Ward Copy Share Image
Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The act of praying is the very highest energy of which the human mind is capable; praying, that is, with the total… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
You may seek companionship and warmth, for example, but if your unconscious intention is to keep people at a distance, the experiences… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have known not a few men who, after reaching the summits of business success, found themselves miserable on attaining retirement age.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The limitations of federal laws are able to create real progress at the local level. Ultimately, to effect not just incremental progress… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That said, there are a few clear factors that determine the potential of a university to reach the highest levels of excellence.… — Henry Rosovsky Copy Share Image
Think back to the most important experiences of your life, the highest highs, the greatest victories, the most daunting obstacles overcome. How… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The Information Age is, first and foremost, an education age, in which education must start at birth and continue throughout a lifetime.… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
Charles and I go back since college. None of us thought this would happen, we just wanted to play basketball. This is… — Dominique Wilkins Copy Share Image
My specific concerns with Trump's plans are that they are likely to investments in infrastructure where the private returns are highest (for… — Mariana Mazzucato Copy Share Image
Both the Democratic and Republican parties are bought and paid for by corporate America and cater to the needs of the highest… — Roseanne Barr Copy Share Image
In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
This freedom of political discussion on the highest level is something which Western civilization has in common with that of classical antiquity,… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain?… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
To make the improving of our own character our central aim is hardly the highest kind of goodness. True goodness forgets itself… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
Rather than let their product compete fully and fairly in the marketplace, FalconStor resorted to bribery and graft to win important contracts… — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
It's not about facts, it's about feelings. It's about remembering feelings and happiness. A definition of art is that it makes concrete… — Agnes Martin Copy Share Image
The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
man is by nature designed to live in the polis, the highest form of koinonia, community; that is man's end or goal… — Moses Finley Copy Share Image
Of praise a mere glutton, he swallow'd what came, And the puff a dunce, he mistook it for fame; Till his relish… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Usually, the leaders appear in the moment of the highest stress, when it is time, speaking symbolically, to go to the barricades.… — Vladimir Bukovsky Copy Share Image
Honesty is not only the deepest policy, but the highest wisdom; since, however difficult it may be for integrity to get on,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Don't be intimidated by people who try to belittle your ambitions. Most of the time they are just jealous of your success… — Robert Cheeke Copy Share Image
We cannot, by total reliance on law, escape the duty to judge right and wrong... There are good laws and there are… — Alexander Bickel Copy Share Image
Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes… — Jack Johnson Copy Share Image
It's possible to do your best work at your highest level without competing. I'm not anticompetition, but at an individual level, it… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
The United States of course wants to follow the highest standards of conduct with regard to enemy combatants who follow the rules… — John Yoo Copy Share Image