Lessening Quotes

26 quotes by 22 authors

In teaching man, experimental science results in lessening his pride more and more by proving to him every day that primary causes, like the objective… — Claude Bernard
A clearer and more conventional narrative would have helped the film without, in my opinion, lessening its beauty and its impact. Frankly, I'm still trying… — Sean Penn
Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied… — George Eliot
If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an… — Thomas Jefferson
You are quite correct in saying that I banned the export of monkeys on a humanitarian basis and not because the number was lessening. I… — Morarji Desai
... legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property... Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation… — Thomas Jefferson
The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect. — Reza Aslan
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition,… — Thomas Jefferson
I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as… — Claude Bernard
There is one fat that diabetics can eat without fear. That fat is coconut oil. Not only does it not contribute to diabetes but it… — Bruce Fife
We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them. — Robert Browning
The issue is whether the ultimate civil authority of the United States can tolerate actions in contempt of constitutional lines of authority. Any lessening of… — Harold Russell
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence… — Thomas Aquinas
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening… — Thomas Jefferson
No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his… — Jane Austen
We donâ€™t like to think of ourselves as preyâ€”it is a lessening thoughtâ€”but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget… — Gary Paulsen
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our… — Adam Smith
Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism. — Stephen Covey
Not all political actors share our vision of fighting terrorism, lessening tensions in the region and focusing on building the economy. It is natural that… — Asif Ali Zardari
For years, particularly with the advent of the Internet, people have been griping about lessening attention spans. — Kevin Spacey

Who Wrote These Lessening Quotes

22 authors contributed a total of 26 Lessening Quotes as follows: