Constraint Quotes

71 quotes by 63 authors

Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of… — Hermann Weyl
In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture. — Albert Camus
Innovation is born from the interaction between constraint and vision. — Marissa Mayer
It is not the multitude of hard duties, it is not the constraint and contention that advance us in our Christian course. On the contrary,… — Francois Fenelon
Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay… — Henry David Thoreau
In America a woman loses her independence for ever in the bonds of matrimony. While there is less constraint on girls there than anywhere else,… — Alexis de Tocqueville
There is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune. — Sophocles
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force.… — Ursula K. Le Guin
For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such… — Marie de France
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide
All constraint, / Except what wisdom lays on evil men, / Is evil. — William Cowper
The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as… — Thomas Sowell
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint. — Alexander Hamilton
There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who… — Sonia Sotomayor
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution. — Igor Stravinsky
The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise man sees in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of… — Walt Whitman
I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different… — Henry David Thoreau
If we examine every stage of our lives, we find that from our first breath to our last we are under the constraint of circumstances.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Mari remembered what she had read in the young girl's eyes the moment she had come into the refectory: fear. Fear. Veronika might feel insecurity,… — Paulo Coelho
This concern with the basic condition of freedom -- the absence of physical constraint -- is unquestionably necessary, but is not all that is necessary.… — Aldous Huxley

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