Among Quotes
4656 Among quotes by 2816 unique authors
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When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all.…
— Albert Einstein
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With increasing distance, our knowledge fades, and fades rapidly. Eventually, we reach the dim boundary-the utmost limits of our telescopes. There, we measure shadows, and…
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes…
— Max Wertheimer
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Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the…
— Claude Levi-Strauss
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The more we know about this universe, the more mysterious it is. The old world that Job knew was marvelous enough, and his description of…
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
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This movement among the Jews is not new... this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis…
— Winston Churchill
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Lord Jesus, Who in the Eucharist make your dwelling among us and become our traveling companion, sustain our Christian communities so that they may be…
— Pope John Paul II
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From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
— Lucretius
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If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Dreams are the sources of action, the meeting and the end, a resting place among the flight of things.
— Muriel Rukeyser
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A voice so thrilling ne'er was heard... Breaking the silence of the seas Among the farthest Hebrides.
— William Wordsworth
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Be sincere and true to your word, serious and careful in your actions; and you will get along even among barbarians, But if you are…
— Confucius
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Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.
— Hannah More
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out…
— Carol Gilligan
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One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among…
— Nathanael Emmons
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[The natural world cleans water, pollinates plants and provides pharmaceuticals, among many other gifts.] Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
— E. O. Wilson
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On the whole, it is patience which makes the final difference between those who succeed or fail in all things. All the greatest people have…
— John Ruskin
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If there is a regulation that says you have to do something-whether it be putting in seat belts, catalytic converters, clean air for coal plants,…
— Steven Chu
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Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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