Effected Quotes

62 quotes by 56 authors

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors. — Thomas Huxley
There is no cruelty so inexorable and unrelenting as that which proceeds from a bigoted and presumptuous supposition of doing service to God. The victim… — Charles Caleb Colton
Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy. — Charles Caleb Colton
Fields and trees are not willing to teach me anything; but this can be effected by men residing in the city. — Plato
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked… — Pliny the Elder
How many things... are looked upon as quite impossible until they have been actually effected? — Pliny the Elder
What Christian love cannot do is effected by a common hatred. — Heinrich Heine
Thomas Jefferson explained, Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated. .. If Congress can determine what… — Bill Drayton
Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life… — Thomas Aquinas
A diplomat had been kidnapped, a cabinet minister had been kidnapped, they were under threats of murder. The police forces were rather tired. After a… — Robert Bourassa
Intelligent thinking means an increment of freedom in action-an emancipation from chance and fatality. 'Thought' represents the suggestion of a way of response that is… — John Dewey
Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself. — Carl Jung
Political activists of all stripes are usually a wacky bunch, and never more so than in a system like Britain's, where power is effected via… — Will Self
Children can feel, but they cannot analyse their feelings; and if the analysis is partially effected in thought, they know not how to express the… — Charlotte Bronte
Without enthusiasm nothing great can be effected in art. — Robert Schumann
Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull… — Samuel Beckett
Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through… — Donald Miller
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism… — Thomas Huxley
The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been… — James Hogg
It is not by consolidation, or concentration of powers, but by their distribution, that good government is effected. — Thomas Jefferson

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