Men endure the losses that befall them by mere casualty with more patience than the damages they sustain by injustice. — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
“I wonder if anyone will know what I mean when I say that some people make the world seem like a large… — Tales of Mere Existence Copy Share Image
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Science is but a mere heap of facts, not a golden chain of truths, if we refuse to link it to the… — Frances Power Cobbe Copy Share Image
What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise… — Ernestine Rose Copy Share Image
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Photographic data... is still and ESSENTIALLY THE SAFEST POETIC MEDIUM and the most agile process for catching the most delicate osmoses which… — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
As the true object of education is not to render the pupil the mere copy of his preceptor, it is rather to… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a… — Mabel Osgood Wright Copy Share Image
I would beg the wise and learned fathers (of the church) to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Lists help us manage the chaos of our lives—to impose order, if only for a moment. Writing a list clears the mind.… — Sasha Cagen Copy Share Image
From the described experiment it is clear that the mere act of eating, the food even not reaching the stomach, determines the… — Ivan Pavlov Copy Share Image
About the scientific revolution: it "outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
The freeway experience ... is the only secular communion Los Angeles has. Mere driving on the freeway is in no way the… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Faith Words arent just mere positive affirmations; they open your life up to the supernatural power of God. — Bo Sanchez Copy Share Image
But it is the knowledge of necessary and eternal truths which distinguishes us from mere animals, and gives us reason and the… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle… — Dmitri Mendeleev Copy Share Image
Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune. — Confucius Copy Share Image
The first man who said "fire burns" was employing scientific method, at any rate if he had allowed himself to be burnt… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the clearness of this Himalayan air, mountains draw near, and in such splendor, tears come quietly to my eyes and cool… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image