Discard Quotes

126 quotes by 113 authors

While day by day the overzealous student stores up facts for future use, he who has learned to trust nature finds need for ever fewer… — Larry Bird
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life,… — Alex Campbell
He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard… — Chanakya
I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard… — Leonard Cohen
But in the present day men cast off gentleness, and are all for being bold; they spurn frugality, and retain only extravagance; they discard humility,… — Laozi
It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more… — Werner Heisenberg
Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness… — J. Reuben Clark
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always good to discard… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard. — Richard Avedon
Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And,… — Bruce Lee
To become a lawyer you must discard your ethics and become an eloquent devil that views justice as god. — Kane Morgan
We are better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to discard them into the ash heap of history. — John E. Jones III
Feynman's cryptic remark, "no one is that much smarter ...," to me, implies something Feynman kept emphasizing: that the key to his achievements was not… — Philip Warren Anderson
The most difficult mental process of all is to consider objectively any concept which, if accepted as fact, will toss into discard a lifetime of… — Robert Monroe
He should discard the texts altogether, as the man who seeks rice discards the husk. — Chidananda Saraswati
We recipients of the boon of liberty have always been ready, when faced with discomfort, to discard any and all first principles of liberty, and,… — David Mamet
Take what's useful, discard what is not. — Bruce Lee
'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it… — George Washington
I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work… — Ludwig van Beethoven
The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the… — Ian Gardner

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