Consists Quotes
1176 Consists quotes by 744 unique authors
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Know that the science of unveiling has no end to it, for it consists in the journey of the intellect in the stations of Majesty,…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.
— William Blackstone
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True observers of nature, although they may think differently, will still agree that everything that is, everything that is observable as a phenomenon, can only…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Gardening as far as Gardening is Art, or entitled to that appellation, is a deviation from nature; for if the true taste consists, as many…
— Joshua Reynolds
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...that in our state one man was to do one job, and the job he was naturally most suited for .. And further, we have…
— Plato
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True art consists in concealing art.
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly…
— Noah Webster
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The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
— Fernando Pessoa
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Beauty is like a train that ceaselessly roars out of the Gare de Lyon and which I know will never leave, which has not left.…
— Andre Breton
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The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down into the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger,…
— Andre Breton
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Godliness consists in the knowledge love & worship of God, Humanity in love, righteousness & good offices towards man.
— Isaac Newton
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
— Huston Smith
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The greatest gain from space travel consists in the extension of our knowledge. In a hundred years this newly won knowledge will pay huge and…
— Wernher von Braun
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The meaning or value of a thing consists of what it affords.
— James J. Gibson
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Salvation in its true and full meaning is synonymous with exaltation or eternal life and consists in gaining an inheritance in the highest of the…
— Bruce R. McConkie
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Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it,
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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You should be real witnesses of a world of doing and acting differently. But in life it is difficult for everything to be clear, precise,…
— Pope Francis
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Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Man's salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of…
— Saint Peter
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True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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The great advantage [the telephone] possesses over every other form of electrical apparatus consists in the fact that it requires no skill to operate the…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Life does not consist in thinking, it consists in acting.
— Woodrow Wilson
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Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing…
— Friedrich Engels
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To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which…
— John Henry Newman
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