Ladder Quotes
362 quotes by 297 authors
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Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all…
— Victor Hugo
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The sculptor will chip off all unnecessary material to set free the angel. Nature will chip and pound us remorselessly to bring out our possibilities.…
— Orison Swett Marden
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As fire does not give birth to snow, so those who seek honor here will not enjoy it in heaven... As those who climb a…
— John Climacus
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The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
— Bobby Knight
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Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them…
— Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Animals are our younger brothers and sisters, also on the ladder of evolution but a few rungs lower. It is an important part of our…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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Freedom is a ladder: one side of the ladder reaches hell, the other side touches heaven. It is the same ladder; the choice is yours.
— Rajneesh
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I think when I was on the corporate ladder, it was very difficult to maintain the hours. It's a little easier when you have you're…
— Tory Burch
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As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is…
— Jose Mujica
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'Tis sorrow builds the shining ladder up, Whose golden rounds are our calamities, Whereon our firm feet planting, nearer God The spirit climbs, and hath…
— James Russell Lowell
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Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.
— Rose of Lima
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God calls us, just as he called Abraham, away from the security we knew, out of our old, familiar, little room, down the ladder of…
— Peter Kreeft
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Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a…
— Emma Goldman
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Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty
— Morgan Freeman
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Adventurers tend to prance about the ladder of success, fearing less the sensation of a great fall than the humility of hanging idle.
— Mike Caro
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Eyeing the traffic circulating the lobby hung with bad art. Big invasive stuff unloaded on Stanley Bard in exchange for rent. The hotel is an…
— Patti Smith
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You can't get on my level. you gon' need a space shuttle or a ladder; that's forever.
— Lil Wayne
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Why didn't evolution make a giraffe good at carpentry so it could build a ladder?
— Karl Pilkington
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