Obtained Quotes

287 Obtained quotes by 237 unique authors

Prayer can solve more problems, alleviate more suffering, prevent more transgression, and bring about greater peace and contentment in the human soul than can be… — Thomas S. Monson
‎"Intellect is the knowledge obtained by experience of names and forms; wisdom is the knowledge which manifests only from the inner being; to acquire intellect… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
If the world were a paradise of luxury and ease, a land flowing with milk and honey, where every Jack obtained his Jill at once… — Arthur Schopenhauer
I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love. — Donald Barthelme
Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two. What is obtained by love is retained for all time. What… — Mahatma Gandhi
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed… — Martin Luther
Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars… — Anna Godbersen
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. — Adam Johnson
Rafe asks him, could the king's freedom be obtained, sir, with more economy of means? Less bloodshed? Look, he says: once you have exhausted the… — Hilary Mantel
Kira is evil ... There's no denying that ... But lately I've been starting to think of it more like this ... The real evil… — Tsugumi Ohba
Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains… — Giacomo Casanova
In reality, in love there is a permanent suffering which joy neutralizes, renders virtual delays, but which can at any moment become what it would… — Marcel Proust
Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end. — Unknown Author
Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the… — James Randi
Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for… — George Polya
While it is quite reasonable for scientists to be skeptical of new ideas that do not fit within the accepted realm of scientific knowledge, the… — Stanley B. Prusiner
The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of… — Joseph B. Wirthlin
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of… — Peter Singer
In 1906, I developed pleurisy and was unable to get into condition. So I asked for my release and obtained it. So ended my Major… — Kid Nichols
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the… — John James Audubon
The most direct evidence of the wonderful plasticity and elasticity of red corpuscles is obtained when they are watched in a current, where they can… — August Krogh
It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds… — August Krogh
Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance… — Buddha
Even if major funding is obtained for cold fusion, conceivably the phenomenon could suffer from problems as intractable as those of hot fusion. It may… — Charles Platt
People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost… — John Moody

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