Gradual Quotes

215 quotes by 189 authors

The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without… — Mary Astell
I must stress here the point that I appreciate clarity, order, meaning, structure, rationality: they are necessary to whatever provisional stability we have, and they… — A. R. Ammons
The doctrine of evolution implies the passage from the most organised to the least organised, or, in other terms, from the most general to the… — John Hughlings Jackson
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that we may be… — C.S. Lewis
Man's progress is but a gradual discovery that his questions have no meaning. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Now, is it possible not to be hurt at all? Because the consequences of being hurt are the building of a wall around oneself, withdrawing… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual… — Benjamin Disraeli
Surrender is the quantum leap from mind to no-mind, from ego to egolessness. And in a single step the whole journey is contained. It is… — Rajneesh
Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty. — Albert Camus
We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying… — Samuel Johnson
He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first stone upon the materialism of… — Ludwig von Mises
As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics, the latter is… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… — Francis Bacon
Unless our laboratory results are to give us artificialities, mere scientific curiosities, they must be subjected to interpretation by gradual re-approximation to conditions of life. — John Dewey
Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by… — John Stuart Mill
I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery. — George Washington
It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against Christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; It appears to… — Charles Darwin
The prospect of penury in age is so gloomy and terrifying that every man who looks before him must resolve to avoid it; and it… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr

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