Assimilated Quotes
35 quotes by 34 authors
-
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
-
The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for,…
— George Washington
-
Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes…
— Charles Caleb Colton
-
It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for science is always most completely…
— James Clerk Maxwell
-
What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought…
— Bertrand Russell
-
The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their natural order, the successive intervals…
— Nadia Boulanger
-
I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
— Anton Yelchin
-
Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you into the social fabric, giving…
— Camilla Gibb
-
An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen…
— Wilfred Trotter
-
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one stanza at a time is…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
-
Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life by digestion, and can thus…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
-
After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these ideas will not make sense,…
— Jeremy Silman
-
A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth,…
— Henry Mayhew
-
All physical and economic tests that may be devised are worthless if the immigrant, through racial or other inherently antipathetic conditions, cannot be more or…
— Boies Penrose
-
A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two…
— Leo Tolstoy
-
Education is not the amount of information that is put into your brain and runs riot there, undigested all your life. We must have life-building,…
— Swami Vivekananda
-
Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the…
— Margery Allingham
-
If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then…
— Joseph Campbell
-
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it,…
— John von Neumann
Who Wrote These Assimilated Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 35 Assimilated Quotes, led by these top contributors: