If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Everything in your world is filled with intelligence, even the so-called inanimate objects. Treat them intelligently if you wish to obtain intelligent,… — Catherine Ponder Copy Share Image
Quit trying to find beautiful objects to photograph. Find the ordinary objects so you can transform it by photographing it. — Morley Baer Copy Share Image
The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur. — Edmund Husserl Copy Share Image
Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop. — Mae West Copy Share Image
A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our… — Lottie Moon Copy Share Image
If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every… — Stanley B. Prusiner Copy Share Image
Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
There is a quality of murky grandeur we give ourselves in having our own feelings, recoiling, separate from other things... To feel… — Eli Siegel Copy Share Image
The child who is permitted to torment, or destroy, the minutest object in creation, who will wantonly tread upon a worm, or… — Laetitia Pilkington Copy Share Image
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to only… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not… — Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar Copy Share Image
Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy;… — Swami Paramananda Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
So when we come across somebody who does understand this and makes an effort to try and explain it to us, some… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Fashion is not a real element of beauty in external objects; and to persons who possess a good endowment of Form, Constructiveness… — George Combe Copy Share Image
“She was a woman still controlled by the traumas of her girlhood. It made more sense to put her three-year-old self in… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Materialism is the recognition of "objects in themselves", or outside the mind; ideas and sensations are copies of images of those objects. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
It is the object of learning, not only to satisfy the curiosity and perfect the spirits of ordinary men, but also to… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Using the stratagem of defining character by what changes and what remains the same, the one constant always seems to be regret.… — Stephen Tobolowsky Copy Share Image
I endeavor to keep their attention fixed on the main objects of all science, the freedom & happiness of man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In Tantric Buddhism we call the inherent knowledge that all animate and inanimate objects possess of themselves - their emptiness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life clearly discerns his object, and towards that object… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot… — John William McCormack Copy Share Image
“When it comes to sex: some men treat women as objects; some women treat objects as men.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Greek is a musical and prolific language, that gives a soul to the objects of sense, and a body to the abstractions… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The whole arrangement of my picture is expressive. The place occupied by the figures or objects, the empty spaces around them, the… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The object of education is not to fill a man's mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The object of pure Physic[s] is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure Mathematic[s] that of… — James Joseph Sylvester Copy Share Image