Hitherto Quotes
153 quotes by 131 authors
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Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an…
— Mary Astell
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very…
— Douglas Adams
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
— Max Beerbohm
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Freud taught us that it wasn't God that imposed judgment on us and made us feel guilty when we stepped out of line. Instead, it…
— Tony Campolo
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The great fault of all ethics hitherto has been that they believed themselves to have to deal only with the relations of man to man.…
— Albert Schweitzer
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We are all the sons or daughters of immigrants - some more recent than others - but all dedicated to the triumph of an idea…
— Jack Kemp
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Just as Darwin discovered the law of evolution in organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of evolution in human history; he discovered the simple…
— Friedrich Engels
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The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Like all sciences and all valuations, the psychology of women has hitherto been considered only from the point of view of men.
— Karen Horney
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It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead it seems more…
— Werner Heisenberg
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It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in…
— Aldous Huxley
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Nature is a vast tablet, inscribed with signs, each of which has its own significancy, and becomes poetry in the mind when read; and geology…
— Hugh Miller
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Modern physics has changed nothing in the great classical disciplines of, for instance, mechanics, optics, and heat. Only the conception of hitherto unexplored regions, formed…
— Werner Heisenberg
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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
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He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts he must lay…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried.
— Francis Bacon
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But it is just this characteristic of simplicity in the laws of nature hitherto discovered which it would be fallacious to generalize, for it is…
— Bertrand Russell
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I now never make the preparations for penetrating into some small province of nature hitherto undiscovered without breathing a prayer to the Being who hides…
— Louis Agassiz
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It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we…
— Thomas Jefferson
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