Almost Universal Quotes
16 quotes by 14 authors
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As I travel around Idaho and visit with seniors, I hear almost universal concern about the rising cost of health care, particularly the cost of…
— Michael K. Simpson
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My point of view is that science is essentially private, whereas the almost universal counter point of view, explicitly stated in many of the articles…
— Percy Williams Bridgman
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The belief that we can manage the Earth and improve on Nature is probably the ultimate expression of human conceit, but it has deep roots…
— Rene Dubos
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When you see the natural and almost universal craving in English sick for their 'tea,' you cannot but feel that nature knows what she is…
— Florence Nightingale
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Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost…
— Henry David Thoreau
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A garden full of sweet odours is a garden full of charm, a most precious kind of charm not to be implanted by mere skill…
— Louise Wilder
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War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of…
— Jane Goodall
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Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The necessity of every one paying in his own labor for what he consumes, affords the only legitimate and effectual check to excessive luxury, which…
— Josiah Warren
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Seasonal changes, as it were, take place in history, when there is practically an almost universal death, a falling of the foliage of the tree…
— George Edward Woodberry
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One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave…
— Stella Gibbons
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To an eagle or to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two…
— Beryl Markham
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One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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There is an almost universal tendency, perhaps an inborn tendency, to suspect the good faith of a man who holds opinions that differ from our…
— Karl Popper
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A lot of high-level scientists are in fact people of almost universal interest.
— Jonathan Miller
Who Wrote These Almost Universal Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Almost Universal Quotes as follows: