Indeed Quotes
2942 quotes by 1865 authors
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Indeed envy is a defect; worse than any other.
— Rumi
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. . . Virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone that renders us invincible. These are the tactics we…
— Patrick Henry
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What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has…
— Rollo May
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It is indeed a singular thing that people wish to pass laws to nullify the disagreeable consequences that the law of responsibility entails. Will they…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Blacks were not enslaved because they were black but because they were available. Slavery has existed in the world for thousands of years. Whites enslaved…
— Thomas Sowell
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Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way…
— Adolf Eichmann
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As any change must begin somewhere, it is the single individual who will experience it and carry it through. The change must indeed begin with…
— Carl Jung
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Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Even mistaken hypotheses and theories are of use in leading to discoveries. This remark is true in all the sciences. The alchemists founded chemistry by…
— Claude Bernard
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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the…
— Johannes Kepler
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it…
— G. H. Hardy
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There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by…
— Robert Hooke
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The dignity of the human person is a transcendent value, always recognized as such by those who sincerely search for the truth. Indeed, the whole…
— Pope John Paul II
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Groups do not have experiences except insofar as all their members do. And there are no experiences... that all the members of a scientific community…
— Thomas Kuhn
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Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor…
— Isidor Isaac Rabi
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The saying that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing is, to my mind, a very dangerous adage. If knowledge is real and genuine, I…
— Thomas Huxley
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The scientist knows very well that he is approaching ultimate truth only in an asymptotic curve and is barred from ever reaching it; but at…
— Konrad Lorenz
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But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no…
— George Herbert
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Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; while the angelic…
— Honore de Balzac
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The greatest achievements in the science of this [twentieth] century are themselves the sources of more puzzlement than human beings have ever experienced. Indeed, it…
— Lewis Thomas
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