Carefully Quotes
997 quotes by 813 authors
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The carefully fostered theory that schoolwork can be made easy and enjoyable breaks down as soon as anything, however trivial, has to be learned.
— Agnes Repplier
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A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he or she wants and goes…
— Bruce Jenner
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Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Whenever we moderns pause for a moment, and enter the silence, and listen very carefully, the glimmer of our deepest nature begins to shine forth,…
— Ken Wilber
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Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.
— Joseph Addison
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To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulneÂss while telling carefully constructeÂd lies, to hold simultaneoÂusly two opinions which cancelled out,…
— George Orwell
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The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and…
— Hubert H. Humphrey
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I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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A rule of thumb for a warrior is that he makes his decisions so carefully that nothing that may happen as a result of them…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's "fair share" of wealth. The gross…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social…
— Karl Pearson
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In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a…
— George W. Bush
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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a…
— Ronald Fisher
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Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple,…
— Abraham Lincoln
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We should never pretend to know what we don't know, we should not feel ashamed to ask and learn from people below, and we should…
— Mao Zedong
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It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather…
— Paul Davies
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The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all…
— John of Damascus
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Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it…
— Justus von Liebig
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