Impression Quotes

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When a doting person gets down on all fours and plays with the dog's rubber mouse, it only confuses the puppy and gives him a… — Corey Ford
How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil. — Marcus Aurelius
I suppose I might insist on making issues of things. But that is not my nature, and I always bear in mind that my mission… — Marian Anderson
I soon found that wit, like every other power, has its boundaries; that its success depends upon the aptitude of others to receive impressions; and… — Samuel Johnson
The contradictory experiments of chemists leave us at liberty to conclude what we please. My conclusion is, that art has not yet invented sufficient aids… — Thomas Jefferson
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the… — Immanuel Kant
A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more… — Albert Einstein
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression… — George Polya
Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness… — Benjamin Franklin
There is for me powerful evidence that there is something going on behind it all. . . It seems as though somebody has fine tuned… — Paul Davies
The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain… — Sigmund Freud
When you go out to paint, try to forget what objects you have before you - a tree, house, a field....Merely think, here is a… — Claude Monet
Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about… — Bruce Lee
It is hard to resist the impression that the present structure of the universe, apparently so sensitive to minor alterations in numbers, has been rather… — Paul Davies
Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize. — Eda LeShan
Someone once said that middle age is like rereading a book that you haven't read since you were a callow youth. The first time around… — Eda LeShan
Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric… — Pierre Jean George Cabanis
A hundred thousand million Stars make one Galaxy; A hundred thousand million Galaxies make one Universe. The figures may not be very trustworthy, but I… — Arthur Eddington
It is no small advantage to the holy life to "begin the day with God." The saints are wont to leave their hearts with Him… — Thomas Case
The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist… — Antoine Lavoisier

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