Independently Quotes

174 quotes by 159 authors

I don't like gurus. I don't like people who ask you to follow or believe. I like people who ask you to think independently. — A. S. Byatt
Cap the well, yes. Clear up the mess, yes. Make compensation - yes, absolutely. But would it be right to have legislation that independently targets… — David Cameron
To teach a man how he may learn to grow independently, and for himself, is perhaps the greatest service that one man can do another. — Benjamin Jowett
For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to… — Plutarch
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently… — Tim Noakes
If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. — Stanislav Grof
Purer colors... have in themselves, independently of the objects they serve to express, a significant action on the feelings of those who look at them. — Henri Matisse
We have usually no knowledge that any one factor will exert its effects independently of all others that can be varied, or that its effects… — Ronald Fisher
It is notorious that the same discovery is frequently made simultaneously and quite independently, by different persons. Thus, to speak of only a few cases… — Francis Galton
The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it. It's true that by blundering… — Francis Crick
Today, almost half a century after the publication of the Encyclical [of Pius IX], new knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of… — Pope John Paul II
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is… — Charles Darwin
Each painting evolves freely and independently. — Fernando Araujo Perdomo
As electricity is a great power in the world, so the inner mind is the greatest power available to you. Neither operates independently; both depend… — Roger McDonald
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is… — Fritz Muller
Learning is a good medicine: but no medicine is powerful enough to preserve itself from taint and corruption independently of defects in the jar that… — Michel de Montaigne
There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of… — M.C. Escher
Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be… — Avicenna
The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest… — Albert Einstein
The lock-step approach of algebra, geometry, and then more algebra (but rarely any statistics) is still dominant in U. S. schools, but hardly anywhere else.… — Lynn Steen

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