Kinds Quotes
2197 Kinds quotes by 1694 unique authors
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You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend - those with loaded guns, and those who dig. You dig.
— Clint Eastwood
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There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to…
— Dalai Lama
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I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone ... the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of…
— Herbert Spencer
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There are also two kinds of truths, those of reasoning and those of fact. Truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible: truths…
— Gottfried Leibniz
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My desk drawer is filled with all kinds of prayers.
— Geraldine Ferraro
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People are living in unconsciousness, doing all kinds of things in unconsciousness. Everybody is an unconscious robot. We are just pretending that we are conscious;…
— Rajneesh
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In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
— John B. S. Haldane
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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
— H. L. Mencken
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A theory is the more impressive the greater is the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates and…
— Albert Einstein
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Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.…
— E. O. Wilson
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What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing…
— Russell Hoban
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If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude…
— Herbert Spencer
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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
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Entropy theory, on the other hand, is not concerned with the probability of succession in a series of items but with the overall distribution of…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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[In mathematics] There are two kinds of mistakes. There are fatal mistakes that destroy a theory, but there are also contingent ones, which are useful…
— Gian-Carlo Rota
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The old saying of the two kinds of truth. To the one kind belongs statements so simple and clear that the opposite assertion obviously could…
— Niels Bohr
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It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different…
— Immanuel Kant
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Many of the things that have happened in the laboratory have happened in ways it would have been impossible to foresee, but not impossible to…
— Irving Langmuir
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Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the…
— Hans Zinsser
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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
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During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method…
— Richard P. Feynman
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Pollock was terrific. I think he freed himself of all kinds of worry about this world. Ran around and dripped, and then he managed to…
— Agnes Martin
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To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to…
— Denis Diderot
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