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287 Obtained quotes by 237 unique authors

The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free and easy chat… — William Matthews
What is mathematics? Ask this question of person chosen at random, and you are likely to receive the answer "Mathematics is the study of number."… — Keith Devlin
Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. — Morris Raphael Cohen
The need for a quick, satisfactory copying machine that could be used right in the office seemed very apparent to me-there seemed such a crying… — Chester Carlson
Peace is obtained by war. — Cornelius Nepos
I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The… — Floyd Abrams
A final proof of our ideas can only be obtained by detailed studies on the alterations produced in the amino acid sequence of a protein… — Francis Crick
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and… — James A. Garfield
Abstract systems depend on trust, yet they provide none of the moral rewards which can be obtained from personalised trust, or were often available in… — Anthony Giddens
I have in hands, now, specimens of bottom from t he Gulf Stream, obtained by Lieutenant Craven, and I can say that they are among… — Edward Forbes
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that… — Edmund Husserl
Extraordinarily excessive sensuality it may be .. but it all comes down to the same thing in the end, and one means is surely as… — Remy de Gourmont
In Scripture the election of God ... does not come out of works but out of grace. God's electing plan prepares the way of salvation… — G. C. Berkouwer
If all the elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, a periodic repetition of properties is obtained. This is expressed by the… — Dmitri Mendeleev
Through the influence of real art, aided by science, guided by religion... peaceful co-operation of man is now obtained by external means - by law… — Leo Tolstoy
The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It… — Martial
Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to… — Joseph Addison
adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get. — Ambrose Bierce
If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none. — Thomas Jefferson
I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. — Samuel Johnson
One would think that a system loaded with such gross and vulgar absurdities as Scripture religion is could never have obtained credit; yet we have… — Thomas Paine
Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. — Robert Henri
Those who have not obtained the Blessed Vision, the Blessed Vision of the Darshan of the True Guru, the Almighty Lord God they have fruitlessly,… — Guru Nanak
Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained… — Claude Brown

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