Latter Quotes

767 Latter quotes by 537 unique authors

Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations… — Oliver Heaviside
Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The latter. She had a good run, Sook said, doing a little shrug. It was his usual response to death at Mapleshade, and it was… — Lisa Lutz
There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves. — Vincent de Paul
There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited… — Vincent de Paul
Foresight is good when it is subject to the latter, but it becomes excessive when we are in a hurry to avoid something we fear.… — Vincent de Paul
If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter. — Rene Thom
The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method… — Paul Dirac
Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a… — Immanuel Kant
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of… — Richard Whately
The first step to walking in righteousness is simply to try. We must try to believe. Try to learn of God: read the scriptures; study… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
In the emerging, highly programmed landscape ahead, you will either create the software or you will be the software. It's really that simple: Program, or… — Douglas Rushkoff
Reading the morning newspaper is the realist's morning . One orients one's attitude toward the either by or by what the world is. The former… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Every man and woman in society has one big duty. That is, to take care of his or her own self. This is a social… — William Graham Sumner
One great difference between a wise man and a fool is, the former only wishes for what he may possibly obtain; the latter desires impossibilities. — Democritus
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
No true Latter-day Saint and no true American can be a socialist or a communist or support programs leading in that direction. These evil philosophies… — Ezra Taft Benson
Latter-day Saints are not asked to blindly accept everything they hear. We are encouraged to think and discover truth for ourselves. We are expected to… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Success and failure on the public level never mattered much to me, in fact I feel more at home with the latter, having breathed deep… — Samuel Beckett
Women who are confident of their abilities are more likely to succeed than those who lack confidence, even though the latter may be much more… — Joyce Brothers

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