Fragments Quotes

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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments that pop up to the… — Allan Bloom
Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series… — David Bohm
Some things remain fragments, just the lyrics and melodies or a line or two or a verse. — Tracy Chapman
Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Everybody knows how fallible memory can sometimes be. You remember certain fragments precisely, but as soon as you try to join the fragments together, for… — Gunter Grass
No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know them and name them. By… — Lucretius
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the… — Lydia M. Child
The wise man, the true friend, the finished character, we seek everywhere, and only find in fragments. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner.… — George Sand
Don't simply dismiss a coincidence and let it drift away. Life is totally interconnected. These unusual 'things' are simply connections that surprise you because you… — Deepak Chopra
Sometimes I perceive that there is a stillness and a wholeness in the world or in some portion or corner or fragment of the world… — Rick Bass
God has not revealed all things to man and has entrusted us with but a fragment of His mighty work. But He who directs all… — Seneca the Younger
All knowledge is good. It is impossible to say any fragment of knowledge, however insignificant or remote from one's ordinary pursuits, may not some day… — Thomas Huxley
The world is the geologist's great puzzle-box; he stands before it like the child to whom the separate pieces of his puzzle remain a mystery… — Louis Agassiz
Sciences usually advances by a succession of small steps, through a fog in which even the most keen-sighted explorer can seldom see more than a… — James Jeans
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the… — William Osler
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it… — Georges Cuvier
Men can construct a science with very few instruments, or with very plain instruments; but no one on earth could construct a science with unreliable… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend, who will stand firm when others fail;… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
Who can depart from his pain and aloneness without regret? Too many fragments of the spirit have I scattered in these streets, and too many… — Khalil Gibran

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