Body Quotes

12166 Body quotes by 5620 unique authors

Life, in a body whose order and state of affairs can make it manifest, is assuredly, as I have said, a real power that gives… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine. — Aristotle
Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the… — James Clerk Maxwell
We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not… — Francis of Assisi
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds… — John Owen
Saw so much of the wickedness of my heart that I longed to get away from myself...I felt almost pressed to death with my own… — David Brainerd
Ah! sinner, remember this, there is no way on earth effectually to be rid of the guilt, filth, and power of sin, but by believing… — Thomas Brooks
Natural science is founded on minute critical views of the general order of events taking place upon our globe, corrected, enlarged, or exalted by experiments,… — Humphry Davy
Only by following out the injunction of our great predecessor [William Harvey] to search out and study the secrets of Nature by way of experiment,… — Ernest Starling
The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intension nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to fill bodies within the reach of… — Isaac Newton
Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on… — Isaac Newton
The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical world, that our… — Charles Lyell
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live,… — Carl Linnaeus
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by… — John Stuart Mill
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity. — Oscar Wilde
Now you shall consider My love in the Blessed Sacrament. Here, I am entirely yours, soul, body and divinity, as your Bridegroom. You know what… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood. — Francis of Assisi
Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you. — Deepak Chopra
The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul. — George Eliot
But while property is considered as the basis of the freedom of the American yeomanry, there are other auxiliary supports; among which is the information… — Noah Webster
Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! — Thomas Carlyle
As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this… — Thomas Merton
To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we… — Nhat Hanh
In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control,… — Sogyal Rinpoche

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