Furnishes Quotes

56 quotes by 48 authors

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — Henry Ward Beecher
A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. — Claude Bernard
It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human… — Anatole France
The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds… — Friedrich Nietzsche
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously… — Henry David Thoreau
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. — Thomas Love Peacock
Language furnishes the best proof that a law accepted by a community is a thing that is tolerated and not a rule to which all… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Astrology furnishes a splendid proof of the contemptible subjectivity of men. It refers the course of celestial bodies to the miserable ego: it establishes a… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I would... establish the conviction that Chemistry, as an independent science, offers one of the most powerful means towards the attainment of a higher mental… — Justus von Liebig
In the expressions we adopt to prescribe physical phenomena we necessarily hover between two extremes. We either have to choose a word which implies more… — Arthur Schuster
Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the… — Lewis H. Lapham
If the nature of the work is properly appreciated and applied, it will stand in the same relation to the higher faculties as food is… — Unknown Author
The Christian religion, [Pascal] claims, teaches two truths: that there is a God who men are capable of knowing, and that there is an element… — William Lane Craig
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He… — Edmund Burke
But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for… — Sophocles
Among all of the mathematical disciplines the theory of differential equations is the most important... It furnishes the explanation of all those elementary manifestations of… — Unknown Author
After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness… — Robert Dale Owen
Thus the evidence given by those five new thigh bones of the morphological and functional distinctness of Pithecanthropus erectus furnishes proof, at the same time,… — Unknown Author
Mere negation, mere Epicurean infidelity, as Lord Bacon most justly observes, has never disturbed the peace of the world. It furnishes no motive for action;… — Thomas B. Macaulay
The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices. — Isaac Watts

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