It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone who's had a casual observation of the Trump administration will suggest that their priority is going to be… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
…there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The young man [Turgot] destined for an ecclesiastical career was placed within walls carefully designed to keep out all currents of new… — Andrew Dickson White Copy Share Image
As historians, we refuse to allow ourselves these vain speculations which turn on possibilities that, in order to be reduced to actuality,… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
I can testify, from my own experience and observation, that slavery is a curse to the whites as well as to the… — Harriet Ann Jacobs Copy Share Image
Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for… — Marcello Malpighi Copy Share Image
One might get the impression that I recommend a new methodology which replaces induction by counterinduction and uses a multiplicity of theories,… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations-then so much the… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Laplace considers astronomy a science of observation, because we can only observe the movements of the planets; we cannot reach them, indeed,… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
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Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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“[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
In fact, current cosmological observations indicate that the average density of matter and energy in the universe is equal, within measurement errors,… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and… — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
Excellence is never granted to man but as the reward of labor. It argues no small strength of mind to persevere in… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I'm an only child, so I don't come from a big family. But it has been my observation from friends who do… — Ayanna Pressley Copy Share Image
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which… — Robert Fortune Copy Share Image
God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting… — Henry Margenau Copy Share Image
Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about,… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
That's the main work that I've done in my life - really wanting to get past that gender trap where there's a… — Emily Haines Copy Share Image
“The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attention but completely… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
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