Modes Quotes

159 quotes by 133 authors

I love peace, and am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries… — Thomas Jefferson
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of… — Isaac Asimov
Nature is so varied in its modes of action, so multiple in the manisftations of its power, that we have no night to set any… — Camille Flammarion
My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the… — Carl Sagan
There is but one method of rendering a republican form of government durable, and that is by disseminating the seeds of virtue and knowledge through… — Benjamin Rush
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized… — D. H. Lawrence
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic… — Oscar Wilde
Evaluations, in essence, are â€¦ ways of being, modes of existence of those who judge and evaluate. — Gilles Deleuze
Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact,… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more… — John Cleese
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them, — Plato
In republican government the legislative authority necessarily predominates. The remedy for this . . . is to divide the legislature into different branches; and to… — James Madison
"Playing" the resources of characterology for the sake of clarification and insight into the structures of actual existence is many times more daunting than playing… — Kenny Smith
Inductive reason, which alone makes man master of his environment, is an achievement and when once born it must be reinforced by inhibiting the growth… — Muhammad Iqbal
Our political and constitutional rights, so called, are but the natural and inherent rights of man, asserted, carried out, and secured by modes of human… — Gerrit Smith
When a good man lends himself to the advocacy of slavery, he must, at least for a time, feel himself to be any where but… — Gerrit Smith
The idea of the paranoid style as a force in politics would have little contemporary relevance or historical value if it were applied only to… — Richard Hofstadter
But our ways of learning about the world are strongly influenced by the social preconceptions and biased modes of thinking that each scientist must apply… — Stephen Jay Gould
We are not here in this world to find elegant solutions, pregnant with initiative, or to serve the ways and modes of profitable progress. No,… — Michael Foot
In water and on land, in trees, shrubs, and creepers-everywhere in the whole universe abides my Beloved. Further, all the various forms and modes of… — Anandamayi Ma

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