Obtained Quotes

287 Obtained quotes by 237 unique authors

The aim of language...is to communicate...to impart to others the results one has obtained...As I talk, I reveal the situation...I reveal it to myself and… — Jean-Paul Sartre
A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin — Charles Darwin
Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. — Marcel Duchamp
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their… — Michael Crichton
I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly… — C.S. Lewis
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
â€Ž"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

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