Accustomed Quotes

382 quotes by 335 authors

You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and… — Ramana Maharshi
Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their… — Gene Wolfe
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments… — Marcello Malpighi
Nature is accustomed to hide itself. — Heraclitus
Experience teaches, that men are often so much governed by what they are accustomed to see and practice, that the simplest and most obvious improvements… — Alexander Hamilton
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste… — Mark Twain
A mind is accustomed to mathematical deduction, when confronted with the faulty foundations of astrology, resists a long, long time, like an obstinate mule, until… — Johannes Kepler
The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations. — Andreas Vesalius
[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently… — Hudson Gurney
Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of… — Henry Margenau
Nature is nowhere accustomed more openly to display her secret mysteries than in cases where she shows tracings of her workings apart from the beaten… — William Harvey
The danger (where there is any) from armed citizens, is only to the *government*, not to *society*; and as long as they have nothing to… — Joel Barlow
The most difficult struggle of all is the one within ourselves. Let us not get accustomed and adjusted to these conditions. The one who adjusts… — Mordechai Anielewicz
No one doubts but that we imagine time from the very fact that we imagine other bodies to be moved slower or faster or equally… — Baruch Spinoza
My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed… — Vasily Smyslov
Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it. — Baron de Montesquieu
Habit is a man's sole comfort. We dislike doing without even unpleasant things to which we have become accustomed. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous… — Erwin W. Lutzer
I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so… — Eddie Bernice Johnson

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