Antecedents Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes an aid rather than an impediment to social advancement . . .
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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The physician must be able to tell the antecedents, know the present, and foretell the future — must mediate these things, and have two special…
— Hippocrates
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He was highly annoyed by the series of triumphs by the marvelous colored American runner, Jesse Owens. People whose antecedents came from the jungle were…
— Albert Speer
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We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our…
— Murray Bookchin
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Medicine deals with the states of health and disease in the human body. It is a truism of philosophy that a complete knowledge of a…
— Avicenna
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The trendy management fads concentrate on antecedents, .. but the only thing that makes what you do (before a behavior) effective is its consistent pairing…
— Aubrey Daniels
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We're taught to find the antecedents to our adult failures in childhood traumas, and so we spend our lives looking bacwards and pointing fingers, rather…
— Heidi Julavits
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We are all, Esme decides, just vessels through which identities pass: we are lent features, gestures, habits, then we hand them on. Nothing is our…
— Maggie O'Farrell
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I must start at the beginning, if I can find it. Beginnings are elusive things. Just when you think you have hold of one, you…
— Hillary Jordan
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You will eat this and go to sleep, so your pronouns get their antecedents back.
— Patricia Briggs
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I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that…
— Tennessee Williams
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History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Jazz is an art form that depends on its antecedents, there must be respect for the people that have gone before.
— Jon Hendricks
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The sentient beast has long been a staple of fantasy fiction and its antecedents in myth and folktale.
— Paul Di Filippo
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A Catholic understanding of priesthood is so strongly rooted in the historic actions of Jesus and in all their antecedents in the place of sacrifice…
— Vincent Nichols
Who Wrote These Antecedents Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Antecedents Quotes as follows: