Extracts Quotes

26 quotes by 23 authors

Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed to him by… — Claude Bernard
There is one experiment which I always like to try, because it proves something whichever way it goes. A solution of iodine in water is… — Wilder Dwight Bancroft
The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our nation, on the character of God, on the great moral Governor… — William Holmes McGuffey
This boulder seemed like a curious volume, regularly paged, with a few extracts from older works. Bacon tells us that "some books are to be… — Archibald Geikie
The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering. — Roland Barthes
Sometimes when you win, you really lose. And sometimes when you lose, you really win. And sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie.… — Rosie Perez
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and… — Fernando Pessoa
Many South African tribes used extracts from the African bush willow to heal the sick. — Bob Pettit
From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology. — William Holmes McGuffey
Every image is in some way a â€œportrait,â€ not in the way that it would reproduce the traits of a person, but in that it… — Sally Mann
Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. — William Rounseville Alger
When we bless God for mercies, we usually prolong them. When we bless God for miseries, we usually end them. Praise is the honey of… — Charles Spurgeon
It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases… — Hans Selye
The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the… — William Rounseville Alger
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts… — Gary Saul Morson
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. — Gary Saul Morson
I have a corn creamer that I love. It extracts pulp and juice from kernels, and I simmer that down into a creamed corn that… — Nick Offerman
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that… — Nadine Gordimer
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give,… — Henri Matisse

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23 authors contributed a total of 26 Extracts Quotes as follows: