Order Quotes
8221 Order quotes by 4470 unique authors
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Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding…
— Francis Bacon
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You believe in the God who plays dice, and I in complete law and order in a world that objectively exists, and which I, in…
— Albert Einstein
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For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order…
— Wernher von Braun
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If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my…
— Rene Descartes
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Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.
— Sydney Brenner
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Since Christ is the only way to the Father, in order to highlight His living and saving presence in the Church and the world, the…
— Pope John Paul II
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The superior person gathers his weapons together in order to provide against the unforeseen.
— Confucius
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Every teacher should realize he is a social servant set apart for the maintenance of the proper social order and the securing of the right…
— John Dewey
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I do not understand what the man who is happy wants in order to be happier.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The business of the law is to make sense of the confusion of what we call human life - to reduce it to order but…
— Archibald MacLeish
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I paint in order not to cry.
— Paul Klee
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Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.
— Barbara Tuchman
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Modern technology has become a total phenomenon for civilization, the defining force of a new social order in which efficiency is no longer an option…
— Jacques Ellul
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A man does not have to go and find where his eyes are in order to see. The heart is there, always open to you,…
— Ramana Maharshi
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Are they moved by a sense of human need for silence, for reflection, for inner seeking? So they want to get away from the noise…
— Thomas Merton
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I do not know if you remember the tale of the girl who saves the ship under mutiny by sitting on the powder barrel with…
— Isak Dinesen
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The man who does something under orders is not unhappy; he is unhappy who does something against his will.
— Seneca the Younger
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When liberty destroys order the hunger for order will destroy liberty.
— Will Durant
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Learn to laugh. Seriousness is a sin, and it is a disease. Laughter has tremendous beauty, a lightness. It will bring lightness to you, and…
— Rajneesh
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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Roll one then I will light it. Order one and I will buy it.
— Wiz Khalifa
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One should never allow chaos to develop in order to avoid going to war, because one does not avoid a war but instead puts it…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could…
— Sadhu Sundar Singh
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To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
— Barbara Tuchman
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