Formation Quotes

218 quotes by 175 authors

Everything is a formation or an aggregate of love. — Frederick Lenz
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
The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of. — Kevin Costner
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
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
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action. — John Dewey
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
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
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
I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam. — Muhammad Iqbal
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
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
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
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
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
Education has for its object the formation of character. — Herbert Spencer
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
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
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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