Preliminary Quotes
73 quotes by 69 authors
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Nothing more enhances authority than silence. It is the crowning virtue of the strong, the refuge of the weak, the modesty of the proud, the…
— Charles de Gaulle
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The physicist is like someone who's watching people playing chess and, after watching a few games, he may have worked out what the moves in…
— Martin Rees
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Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience,…
— Walter Bagehot
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The pictures were painted directly through me, without preliminary drawings and with great power. I had no idea what the pictures would depict and still…
— Hilma af Klint
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Yogas chitta vritti nirodhah - (Yoga is to check the mind from changing) - which is acceptable to all. That is also the goal of…
— Ramana Maharshi
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A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.
— Arnold Bennett
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No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.
— Chester W. Nimitz
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My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
— Edward Weston
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The Holy Ghost converts [us] from carnality to spirituality. It cleanses, heals, and purifies the soul. . . . . Faith in the Lord Jesus…
— Marion G. Romney
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Seeking is a necessary preliminary to finding, and one who cannot endure the hardship of inquiry cannot expect to harvest the fruit of knowledge.
— John of Salisbury
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This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The theme of the Grail is the bringing of life into what is known as 'the wasteland.' The wasteland is the preliminary theme to which…
— Joseph Campbell
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I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to…
— George Eliot
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Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting…
— Jack Kerouac
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Preliminary research-most of it published outside the medical literature-indicates that a significant number of our patients have experienced some form of violence and abuse during…
— David Schneider
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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that…
— Wilkie Collins
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If we wish to discuss knowledge in the most highly developed contemporary society, we must answer the preliminary question of what methodological representation to apply…
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
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It is not without fear and trembling that a historian of religion approaches the problem of myth. This is not only because of that preliminary…
— Mircea Eliade
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It is indeed an odd business that it has taken this Court nearly two centuries to discover a constitutional mandate to have counsel at a…
— Warren E. Burger
Who Wrote These Preliminary Quotes
69 authors contributed a total of 73 Preliminary Quotes, led by these top contributors: