Firsts Quotes

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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first… — Abraham Flexner
Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in… — Philip Pullman
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and… — Victor Hugo
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you… — George Polya
Without the slightest doubt there is something through which material and spiritual energy hold togehter and are complementary. In the last analysis, somehow or other,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second,… — Linus Pauling
It seems that, after nineteen centuries of extraordinary glorification, the small Host for which so many cathedrals have sprung up, the small Host that has… — Francois Mauriac
Everything is deception: seeking the minimum of illusion, keeping within the ordinary limitations, seeking the maximum. In the first case one cheats the Good, by… — Franz Kafka
Funerals and weddings were commonplace, and nothing could have been so interesting to them as the coming of the end of the world ... unless… — Edward Eggleston
A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it. — Mignon McLaughlin
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old. — Lady Bird Johnson
School is the first impression children get of organized society. Like most first impressions it is the lasting one. Life is dull and stupid, only… — John Taylor Gatto
The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to… — John Taylor Gatto
Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and… — Pope John Paul II
The first bond of society is the marriage tie; the next our children; then the whole family of our house, and all things in common. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The First Bond of Society is Marriage. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy… — Jennifer Lopez

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