Preliminary Quotes

73 quotes by 69 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry. — Arnold Bennett
No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima. — Chester W. Nimitz
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. — Edward Weston
The Holy Ghost converts [us] from carnality to spirituality. It cleanses, heals, and purifies the soul. . . . . Faith in the Lord Jesus… — Marion G. Romney
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

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