Exhibits Quotes
64 quotes by 59 authors
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.
— Clement of Alexandria
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This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is…
— Thomas Traherne
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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud, a mountain, a…
— Benoit Mandelbrot
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at…
— Thomas Jefferson
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He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
— Dennis Price
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still, subsisting consequences, to the exclusion…
— Richard Kirwan
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The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but maybe I could do something…
— Paul Allen
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder…
— Mark Twain
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The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent effects. Particular provisions, though not…
— Alexander Hamilton
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America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition than America disunited, with a…
— James Madison
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The nice thing about growing up in that kind of environment is you were exposed to so much -- music, plays, art exhibits, rock concerts.
— Perrey Reeves
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Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but the range of…
— Northrop Frye
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A wonderful, warm, positive individual who exhibits the values that are prerequisite to a significant faculty post in higher education, I think that it is…
— David Cerone
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In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of…
— Jerome Bruner
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The simplest type of breakdown exhibits itself as an oscillation in a goal-seeking process which appears only when that process is actively invoked.
— Norbert Wiener
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The incentive to peacemaking is love, but it degenerates into appeasement whenever justice is ignored. To forgive and to ask for forgiveness are both costly…
— John Stott
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A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most,…
— William Styron
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