Foundations Quotes

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase… — Carl Jung
If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established… — Queen Latifah
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change, a… — Audre Lorde
The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good… — Niccolo Machiavelli
The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government. — George Osborne
Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. — Eduard Shevardnadze
I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care… — George Soros
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under… — Henry David Thoreau
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while. — Henry David Thoreau
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Neutrality is a negative word. It does not express what America ought to feel. We are not trying to keep out of trouble; we are… — Woodrow Wilson
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. — Woodrow Wilson
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz
It is our American habit if we find the foundations of our educational structure unsatisfactory to add another story or wing. — Albert Einstein
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant
The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the… — Charles Bukowski
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous… — Che Guevara
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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