Best Fundamental Quotations
1620 Fundamental quotes by 1164 unique authors
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The fundamental basis of this Nation's law was given to Moses on the Mount. The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the…
— Harry S. Truman
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Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and…
— Ronald Reagan
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While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility…
— Albert Einstein
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We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and…
— Confucius
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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao…
— Jung Chang
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Successful basketball coaches are those that subscribe to a system that is based on sound fundamental teachings.
— Don Meyer
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The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts: when all Americans are treated…
— Barack Obama
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The fundamental biological variant is DNA. That is why Mendel's definition of the gene as the unvarying bearer of hereditary traits, its chemical identification by…
— Jacques Monod
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Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness.…
— Pema Chodron
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Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
— Matthieu Ricard
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The most fundamental winning formula is to bet on human decency and be patient.
— Robert Breault
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What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Our fundamental relationship is soul-to-soul. As we become multi-sensory, we become aware of it.
— Gary Zukav
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in…
— Albert Einstein
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...the scientific attitude implies what I call the postulate of objectivity-that is to say, the fundamental postulate that there is no plan, that there is…
— Jacques Monod
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At least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.
— Terry Pratchett
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There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of…
— Frederick Soddy
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This fundamental discovery that all bodies owe their origin to arrangements of single initial corpuscular type is the beacon that lights the history of the…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Fortunately I experienced Max Wertheimer's teaching in Berlin and collaborated for over a decade with Wolfgang Köhler. I need not emphasize my debts to these…
— Kurt Lewin
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It's becoming clear that in a sense the cosmos provides the only laboratory where sufficiently extreme conditions are ever achieved to test new ideas on…
— Martin Rees
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The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in…
— Gustave Eiffel
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The scientific value of truth is not, however, ultimate or absolute. It rests partly on practical, partly on aesthetic interests. As our ideas are gradually…
— George Santayana
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The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in…
— Carl Sagan
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