Clearly Quotes
2192 quotes by 1707 authors
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Thought cannot avoid the ethical or reverence and love for all life. It will abandon the old confined systems of ethics and be forced to…
— Albert Schweitzer
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We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we…
— Mark Twain
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When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was…
— Mark Twain
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We know the good, we apprehend it clearly; but we can't bring it to achievement.
— Euripides
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Observation by means of the microscope will reveal more wonderful things than those viewed in regard to mere structure and connection: for while the heart…
— Marcello Malpighi
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Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful…
— Al Gore
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The Chinese are clearly inculcating the idea that science is exciting and important, and that's why they, as a whole-they're graduating four times as many…
— Bill Gates
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The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is…
— Karl Popper
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The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.
— Jeff Greenfield
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Speak your truth quietly & clearly; and listen to others, even the dull & ignorant; they too have their story.
— Max Ehrmann
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If, after a rigid examination, it be found an imposition, it should be extensively published to the world as such; the evidences and arguments on…
— Orson Pratt
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The world has changed far more in the past 100 years than in any other century in history. The reason is not political or economic…
— Stephen Hawking
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Considering the current sad state of our computer programs, software development is clearly still a black art, and cannot yet be called an engineering discipline.
— William J. Clinton
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Our mission is to organize the world's information. Clearly, the more information we have when we do a search, the better it's going to work.
— Larry Page
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Medicine in its present state is, it seems to me, by now completely discovered, insofar as it teaches in each instance the particular details and…
— Hippocrates
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We are, first of all, not solitary creatures and second of all, we are deeply embedded in the lives of others. It's very easy to…
— Nicholas A. Christakis
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We cannot doubt that self-interest is the mainspring of human nature. It must be clearly understood that this word is used here to designate a…
— Frederic Bastiat
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If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point…
— Abraham Lincoln
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The problem is that democracy is not freedom. Democracy is simply majoritarianism, which is inherently incompatible with real freedom. Our founding fathers clearly understood this.
— Ron Paul
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If you desire a thing, picture it clearly and hold the picture steadily in mid until it becomes a definite thought-form.
— Wallace D. Wattles
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