Conflict Quotes

1892 Conflict quotes by 1335 unique authors

Every great scientific truth goes through three states: first, people say it conflicts with the Bible; next, they say it has been discovered before; lastly,… — Louis Agassiz
If we ought not to fear mortal truth, still less should we dread scientific truth. In the first place it can not conflict with ethics?… — Henri Poincare
The history of Science is not a mere record of isolated discoveries; it is a narrative of the conflict of two contending powers, the expansive… — John William Draper
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the judgment,… — Walter Savage Landor
The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict… — Clark Moustakas
Modern science knows much about such conflicts. We call the mental state that engenders it "ambivalence": a collision between thought and feeling. — David Seabury
What people need and what they want may be very different. — Elbert Hubbard
What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. — Joseph Wood Krutch
We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws. — Jacob Bronowski
We cannot really think in one way and act in another... — Thomas Troward
The war existing between the senses and reason. — Blaise Pascal
The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. — Mike Tyson
The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state. — Thomas B. Macaulay
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do. — Richard DeVos
The archenemy is the arch stupid! — Thomas Carlyle
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. — Philibert Joseph Roux
Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep inexpressible certitude of… — Thomas Merton
Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East.... The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled.... This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to… — George W. Bush
In a world wounded by conflicts, where violence is justified in God's name, it's important to repeat that religion can never become a vehicle of… — Pope Benedict XVI
Recently there's been a trend to apply the term "bullying" to any kind of conflict at work, for example overwork and long hours. Although some… — Tim Field
The resolution of revolutions is selection by conflict within the scientific community of the fittest way to practice future science. The net result of a… — Thomas Kuhn
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do. I share with… — Martin Rees
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor is there in… — Robert Andrews Millikan
Difficulties arise when reported observations seem to conflict with 'facts' that the majority of scientists accept as established and immutable. Scientists tend to reject conflicting… — Ian Stevenson
Terrorism constitutes a direct attack on the values the UN stands for: the rule of law; the protection of civilians; peaceful resolution of conflicts; and… — Kofi Annan

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