Fitfully Quotes

8 quotes by 7 authors

• From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought. — Alfred North Whitehead
• I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies… — Anthony Minghella
• World views are social constructions and they channel the search for facts. But facts are found and knowledge progresses, however fitfully. — Stephen Jay Gould
• Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man. — Henry George
• The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
• For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving… — George Eliot
• It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark… — Mary Virginia Terhune
• We cannot think first and act afterward. From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking… — Alfred North Whitehead

Who Wrote These Fitfully Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 8 Fitfully Quotes as follows:

• 2 Fitfully Quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
• 1 Fitfully Quote by Anthony Minghella
• 1 Fitfully Quote by Stephen Jay Gould
• 1 Fitfully Quote by Henry George
• 1 Fitfully Quote by Henry Theodore Tuckerman
• 1 Fitfully Quote by George Eliot
• 1 Fitfully Quote by Mary Virginia Terhune