Formation Quotes
218 quotes by 175 authors
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Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love.
— Frederick Lenz
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Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.
— Kevin Costner
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Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would…
— Georges Cuvier
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Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If…
— Jefferson Davis
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
— John Dewey
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I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second…
— Alex Ferguson
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It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon…
— Thomas Huxley
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Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to…
— William Ralph Inge
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I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers…
— Christian Lous Lange
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One of the most beautiful ways for spiritual formation to take place is to let your insecurity lead you closer to the Lord. Natural hypersensitivity…
— Henri Nouwen
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Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not,…
— John Ortberg
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All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of…
— Quentin Bryce
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Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an…
— Jose Saramago
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
— Herbert Spencer
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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
— Edward Thorndike
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This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of…
— Edward Thorndike
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I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional…
— Thornton Wilder
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