Fruitful Quotes

229 quotes by 194 authors

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value. — Isaac Asimov
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed. — Bernard Baruch
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to… — Emile M. Cioran
Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words. — Woody Allen
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking… — Kurt Lewin
There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for… — Pope Gregory I
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful. — John Calvin
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse. — John Boyle O'Reilly
Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries… — Ronald Reagan
If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig… — Dan Millman
In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is… — Niels Bohr
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of… — Thomas Kuhn
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the… — Henry David Thoreau
The old must pass away. It has served its purpose in the cycles of evolution and must now make way for a new, more expanded… — David Spangler
Everywhere revolutions are painful yet a fruitful gestation of people; they shed blood but create light, they eliminate men but elaborate ideas. — Manuel Gonzalez Flores
People keep repeating that the main things are love and compassion. Certainly love and compassion are the main things, but it takes knowledge to make… — H. P. Blavatsky
The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The soul is a breath of living spirit, that with excellent sensitivity, permeates the entire body to give it life. Just so, the breath of… — Hildegard of Bingen
Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season. — Bette Lord

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