Exercised Quotes

201 quotes by 169 authors

Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free. — Theodore Roosevelt
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally… — William Osler
In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily… — Harold B. Lee
The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally… — William Osler
The highest reach of science is, one may say, an inventive power, a faculty of divination, akin to the highest power exercised in poetry; therefore,… — Matthew Arnold
In the study of Zen you can learn how to strengthen and clarify your finite mind. Your finite mind is like a muscle; when exercised… — Frederick Lenz
The common view of marriage as a primitive institution implies in the man more than arbitrary superiority, such as he exercised over the child, which… — Henry Adams
We must not depict socialism as if socialists will bring it to us on a plate all nicely dressed. That will never happen. Not a… — Vladimir Lenin
Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by… — Olga Broumas
Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it… — Charles Caleb Colton
It is indeed strange that with all the knowledge we have gained in the past hundred years we preserve and practice the methods of an… — Clarence Darrow
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an act as this… — James Madison
The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies. — Neil Gaiman
In my seventies, I exercised to stay ambulatory. In my eighties, I exercise to avoid assisted living. — Dick Van Dyke
Fairness is not an attitude. It's a professional skill that must be developed and exercised. — Brit Hume
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. — C.S. Lewis
What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument. — C.S. Lewis
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to… — John Stuart Mill
Most Christian leadership is exercised by people who do not know how to develop healthy, intimate relationships and have opted for power and control instead.… — Henri Nouwen
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice. — Quintilian

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