Chiefly Quotes

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Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and… — Immanuel Kant
It is changes that are chiefly responsible for diseases, especially the greatest changes, the violent alterations both in the seasons and in other things. (:)...regimen… — Hippocrates
We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. — Matthew Simpson
If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily… — Robert Quillen
I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my… — Isaac Asimov
Changes in society are due chiefly to the development of the internal contradictions in society, that is, the contradiction between the productive forces and the… — Mao Zedong
The mathematical difficulties of the theory of rotation arise chiefly from the want of geometrical illustrations and sensible images, by which we might fix the… — James Clerk Maxwell
It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more… — Lajos Kossuth
A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the… — Alexander Smith
What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues… — H. L. Mencken
Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and contain but little… — William Alcott
The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips — Chubby Checker
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To… — Henry David Thoreau
The more our bodies fail us, the more naked and more demanding is the spirit, the more open and loving we can become if we… — May Sarton
So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in… — Charles Darwin
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents has been always tragic, chiefly as an almost indecent excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards; but… — Henry Adams
There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties. — Friedrich Nietzsche
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all… — Aristotle
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons who want to… — Walter Lippmann
Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics of… — Cynthia Ozick

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