Edifice Quotes
83 quotes by 69 authors
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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
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To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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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
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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
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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
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The law is what it is-a majestic edifice, sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another.
— John Galsworthy
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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
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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
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A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
— Andre Maurois
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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
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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
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I've never really had a media edifice supporting me.
— Tucker Max
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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.
Who Wrote These Edifice Quotes
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