Subjects Quotes · Page 17

The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Ask courageous questions. Do not be satisfied with superficial answers. Be open to wonder and at the same time subject all claims…

— Carl Sagan

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions,…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view…

— Abraham Lincoln

The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and…

— Philip Zimbardo

The idea that ageing was subject to control was completely unexpected.

— Cynthia Kenyon

There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them…

— Sigmund Freud

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of…

— William James

This boldness in telling the truth overshadows sport greatly. You couldn't get Joe Frazier or no boxer on this show and get…

— Muhammad Ali

By virtue of the Deity thought renews itself inexhaustibly every day and the thing whereon it shines, though it were dust and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Anybody who is not shocked by this subject has failed to understand it. [of quantum mechanics]

— Niels Bohr

Let every knee bend before Thee, O greatness of my God, so supremely humbled in the Sacred Host. May every heart love…

— Margaret Mary Alacoque

I think we owe it to children to let them dig their knowledge, of whatever subject, for themselves out of the "fit"…

— Charlotte Mason

I do not say with words. I do not say it with images either.… I do not say, I show. I show…

— Eric Rohmer

If we think back through our own lives, the subjects that you liked best in school almost certainly were taught by the…

— David McCullough

It is also painful to see that the struggle against hunger and malnutrition is hindered by market priorities, the primacy of profit,…

— Pope Francis

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

— Frank Chodorov

The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself.....

— Freeman Patterson

The physicist can never subject an isolated hypothesis to experimental test, but only a whole group of hypotheses.

— Pierre Duhem

But I think musicals are going to have to deal with important subjects.

— Vincente Minnelli

I feel like great TED Talks are ones that are a little bit subject to interpretation, that do provoke further conversation -…

— Damon Lindelof

I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find…

— Charles R. Morris

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there's the triumph of coming…

— Alice Walker

In bringing the subject of religious oppression to a wider audience, I didn't just want to kick the Catholic Church but to…

— Peter Mullan

Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction…

— Charles Caleb Colton