Edifice Quotes

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The foundation stones of a great building are destined to groan and be pressed upon; it is not for them to crown the edifice. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity,… — Charles Dickens
Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and… — Mark Twain
The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another. — John Galsworthy
The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is… — Lydia Sigourney
Dubai was a property bubble. Plain and simple. Go to Dubai and see what happened. It was... what I call it the 'Edifice complex' -… — James Chanos
A good wife is like the ivy which beautifies the building to which it clings, twining its tendrils more lovingly as time converts the ancient… — Samuel Johnson
Spiritual education is not a distinct and separate discipline; it is part and parcel of all types and levels of education, In fact, it is… — Sathya Sai Baba
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up that edifice of… — Herbert Read
Both religion and natural science require a belief in God for their activities, to the former He is the starting point, and to the latter… — Max Planck
All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space. I know… — Ansel Adams
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer… — Thomas Mann
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day. — Andre Maurois
It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a… — Jose Rizal
My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits,… — Greg Graffin
I've never really had a media edifice supporting me. — Tucker Max
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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