Intermediate Quotes

56 quotes by 48 authors

The worlds in which man is evolving as he treads the circle of births and deaths are three: the physical world, the astral or intermediate… — Annie Besant
Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood… — Ambrose Bierce
Hospitals are only an intermediate stage of civilization, never intended ... to take in the whole sick population. May we hope that the day will… — Florence Nightingale
Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such as life and… — Douglas Hofstadter
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. — Eric Hoffer
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action. — Stanley Milgram
My main thesis will be that in the study of the intermediate processes of metabolism we have to deal not with complex substances which elude… — Frederick Gowland Hopkins
When the difficulty of a problem lies only in finding out what follows from certain fixed premises, mathematical methods furnish invaluable wings for flying over… — Arthur M. Wellington
Only a tiny fraction of corpses fossilize, and we are lucky to have as many intermediate fossils as we do. We could easily have had… — Richard Dawkins
There are gaps in the fossil graveyard, places where there should be intermediate forms, but where there is nothing whatsoever instead. No paleontologist..denies that this… — David Berlinski
We have seen when the earth had to be prepared for the habitation of man, a veil, as it were, of intermediate being was spread… — John Ruskin
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
What we are witnessing at the moment is a rearrangement of the world in an intermediate stage; the change is not in the use of… — Jacques Ellul
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be… — Norman Cousins
Those whose days are consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolties of fashion, unobservant of nature's lovelinessof demarcation, nor on which… — Aristotle
Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of… — Samuel Johnson
It must not be thought that it is ever possible to reach the interior earth by any perseverance in mining: both because the exterior earth… — Rene Descartes
We don't have a clue what it is to be male or female, or if there are intermediate genders. Male and female might be fields… — Kathy Acker
If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the… — Thomas Young
The gnosis of God is intermediate between immoderation, which is ascribing human characteristics to God, and negligence, which is denying any attributes to God. .… — Ibn Ata Allah

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