He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often… — Derek Jacobi Copy Share Image
Of course the word chaos is used in rather a vague sense by a lot of writers, but in physics it means… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
“They were completely vague. They expressed everything and nothing. 'It is the Æolian harp of style,' thought Julien. 'Amid the most lofty… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending… — Bob Beauprez Copy Share Image
Jefferson found in the religion phrases of the First Amendment no vague or fuzzy language to be bent or shaped or twisted… — Edwin Gaustad Copy Share Image
A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain… — Lazare Carnot Copy Share Image
I have never felt any inward assurance of genius, or any presentiment of glory or of happiness. I have never seen myself… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
As towards most other things of which we have but little personal experience (foreigners, or socialists, or aristocrats, as the case may… — Vernon Lee Copy Share Image
Astrologers were greatly impressed, and misled, by what they believed to be confirming evidence-so much so that they were quite unimpressed by… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the… — David Cross Copy Share Image
The memories which peaceful country scenes call up, are not of this world, nor of its thoughts and hopes. Their gentle influence… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
Thou waitest for the spark from heaven! and we, Light half-believers of our casual creeds, Who never deeply felt, nor clearly will'd,… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word… — Arthur Schuster Copy Share Image
You know... that a blank wall is an apalling thing to look at... The wall of a museum - a canvas -… — Edward Steichen Copy Share Image
You really need to have that discipline. It's not even discipline. I just put down these rules. It's not like a vague,… — Kumail Nanjiani Copy Share Image
My muse is my wife. It's not some vague thing that flutters around the astrosphere or wherever it is. Sometimes as a… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
The idea of freedom is quite in accord with a general, though vague, sentiment among us; it is an idea of fair… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
The hands that help are better far / Than lips that pray. / Love is the ever gleaming star / That leads… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She envied Ralph his dying, for if one were thinking of rest that was the most perfect of all. To cease utterly,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I cannot favour laws such as that of Idaho, which allows sterilization of 'mental defectives, epileptics, habitual criminals, moral degenerates, and sex… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The camera has an interest in turning history into spectacle, but none in reversing the process. At best, the picture leaves a… — Denis Donoghue Copy Share Image
Often, feelings of sadness, uneasiness, and loneliness are vague and unattached to specific events. This makes it more challenging to find ways… — G. Alan Marlatt Copy Share Image
A person talks in such generalities that everyone can understand him and it's considered to be some deep philosophy. However, I would… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably… — Guy Pearce Copy Share Image
There was a misconception about me when I started off because I had my hair greased up and I have some vague… — Chris Isaak Copy Share Image
By the time you kill and mount what you catch, it has lost that very thing that made it worth having. I… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I grew up in Alice, Texas, a small oil town with one theater that only showed Roy Rogers movies. So when I… — Lois Chiles Copy Share Image
We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There… — Ernest Istook Copy Share Image
![“... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the…” quote by Lazare Carnot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/33f/lazare-carnot-71332_beautiful_the-sciences-are-like-a-beautiful-river_1920482.jpg)
