Derive Quotes
257 quotes by 229 authors
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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to…
— Charles Baudelaire
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An economy genuinely local and neighborly offers to localities a measure of security that they cannot derive from a national or a global economy controlled…
— Wendell Berry
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The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others.
— Aesop
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Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever…
— Benjamin Carson
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Muhammad professed to derive from Heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran, not only a body of religious doctrines, but political maxims, civil and…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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One of the great problems of philosophy, is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values…
— Jacques Monod
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Unless there exist peculiar institutions for the support of such inquirers, or unless the Government directly interfere, the contriver of a thaumatrope may derive profit…
— Charles Babbage
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It is quite true that many scientists, many physicists, maintain that the physical constants, the half dozen or so numbers that physicists have to simply…
— Richard Dawkins
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We find that one of the most rewarding features of being scientists these days ... is the common bond which the search for truth provides…
— Stanford Moore
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How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him…
— Clifford Truesdell
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...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the biggest…
— G. E. M. Anscombe
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My idea is that the Koran is a kind of cocktail of texts that were not all understood even at the time of Muhammad. Many…
— Gerd R. Puin
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Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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Love never asks what benefit it will derive from love. Love from its very nature is a disinterested thing. It loves for the creature's sake…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected…
— Ibn Arabi
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To me, then, true criticism consists in trying to find out the intrinsic worth of the thing itself, and not in attributing a quality to…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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