Ladders Quotes

303 quotes by 270 authors

Because a fact seems strange to you, you conclude that it is not one. ... All science, however, commences by being strange. Science is successive.… — Victor Hugo
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
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould
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
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
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
The biggest difficulty in getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. — Bobby Knight
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
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
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
Characters must not brood too long. They must not waste time running up and down ladders in their own insides. — E. M. Forster
My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people,… — Lauren Bacall
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
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
'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
Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven. — Rose of Lima
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
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
Literacy could be the ladder out of poverty — Morgan Freeman
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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