Consist Quotes

317 quotes by 250 authors

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which true… — David Hume
The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government; the liberty… — Abraham Cowley
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
Science is one thing, wisdom is another. Science is an edged tool, with which men play like children, and cut their own fingers. If you… — Arthur Eddington
What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what-eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it… — Sarah Bernhardt
Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that the lines which… — Baruch Spinoza
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer… — Pope Francis
Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas.… — T. Boone Pickens
I ask you sir, who are the militia? They consist now of the whole people. — George Mason
The primary contribution that the Church offers to the development of mankind and peoples does not consist merely in material means or technical solutions. Rather,… — Pope Benedict XVI
The Christian's God does not consist merely of a God who is the author of mathematical truths and the order of elements... But a God… — Blaise Pascal
The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of… — Arthur David Ritchie
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist… — Antoine Lavoisier
With all the strength of my soul I urge you young people to approach the Communion table as often as you can. Feed on this… — Pier Giorgio Frassati
.. since it was true that study, even when done properly, can only teach us what wisdom, right conduct and determination consist in, they wanted… — Michel de Montaigne
It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other… — Walter Raleigh
Morality may consist solely in the courage of making a choice. — Leon Blum
Beware of making your moral staple consist of the negative virtues. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a soil rich in… — Claude Levi-Strauss
Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his… — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

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