Formal Quotes

399 Formal quotes by 358 unique authors

If you are working or you are running a business you have to set aside time and money to invest in your continued formal education… — Strive Masiyiwa
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows. — Hillary Clinton
Shirt collars are very important to me. Putting a very soft shirt collar with a formal suit doesn't work for me at all. — Ozwald Boateng
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a… — Alberto Giacometti
Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and… — Albert Einstein
[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed. — Immanuel Kant
Racing serves as a formal demonstration of your ability to ride the three-headed monster. The first monster is your physical preparation-lifting weights for strength, running… — Brad Alan Lewis
The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had weapons… — Laurence Silberman
Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly… — John Crowe Ransom
To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is… — Brigid Brophy
Government schooling made people dumber, not brighter; made families weaker; ruined formal religion with its hard-sell exclusion of God; set the class structure in stone… — John Taylor Gatto
My knowledge of science came from being with Carl, not from formal academic training. Carl gave me a thrilling tutorial in science and math that… — Ann Druyan
My hope and wish is that one day, formal education will pay attention to what I call 'education of the heart'. — Dalai Lama
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out… — Andrew Sullivan
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a… — John Tillotson
Oppressed people, whatever their level of formal education, have the ability to understand and interpret the world around them, to see the world for what… — Ella Baker
It's very important to have two tiaras when you're on the road; you never know when you'll be invited to something really formal. — Elton John
The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that Americans with disabilities… — Valerie Jarrett
The language that photography has is a formal language. Any photographer is doing something formal. If it's formal, then it must be an aesthetic way… — Sebastiao Salgado
When I enrolled in college at age 19, I had a total of eight years of formal classroom education. As a result, I was not… — Philip Emeagwali
Isolating the student from large sections of human knowledge is not the basis of a Christian education. Rather it is giving him or her the… — Francis Schaeffer
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
With an abstract idea it is possible to enter into a relation of formal knowledge, to become enthusiastic about it, and perhaps even to put… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Repentance and faith are distasteful to the unregenerate; they would sooner repeat a thousand formal prayers than shed a solitary tear of true repentance. — Charles Spurgeon
Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process… — Oliver Heaviside

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