Preserved Quotes
319 Preserved quotes by 283 unique authors
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Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his…
— Nhat Hanh
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I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage. Our history will…
— Edward R. Murrow
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To maintain the ascendancy of the Constitution over the lawmaking majority is the great and essential point on which the success of the [American] system…
— John C. Calhoun
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No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be…
— Isaac Barrow
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The giant neon spinning discs are a reminder of the huge role that Sam Sniderman and his store played in the cultural life of Toronto…
— Gordon Lightfoot
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There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders…
— Robert Ballard
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There is no one force, no group, and no class that is the preserver of liberty. Liberty is preserved by those who are against the…
— James Burnham
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History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is…
— A J P Taylor
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If the entire world decided to become vegan tomorrow, a whole host of the world's problems would disappear overnight. Climate change would decrease by 25…
— Unknown Author
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In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber…
— John Austin Baker
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For when it is the good that is under consideration, and the ethical object is predominant, truth must be considered more in reference to art…
— Friedrich Schleiermacher
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My dear friends you are a royal generation. You were preserved to come to the earth in this time for a special purpose. Not just…
— H. Burke Peterson
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Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books
— Albert Pike
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There are still preserved among Christians traces of that Holy Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove. They expel evil spirits, perform many…
— Tertullian
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So Ham's wife that was preserved on the Ark was a Negro of the seed of Cain and there was a priestly purpose in it,…
— Warren Jeffs
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Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it.
— Plato
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If we're ignorant of the historical sacrifices that made our liberties possible, we will be less likely to make the sacrifices again so that those…
— Walter E. Williams
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Family life is too intimate to be preserved by the spirit of justice. It can only be sustained by a spirit of love which goes…
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton
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. . . Luddites were those frenzied traditionalists of the early 19th century who toured [England] wrecking new weaving machines on the theory that if…
— James A. Michener
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Many of us have a tendency to forget the Gracious Hand which has preserved our nation, enriched it, strengthened it. Many of us imagine in…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic…
— Albert Einstein
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What were the relations between the Jews and the secret societies? That is not easy to elucidate, for we lack reliable evidence. Obviously they did…
— Bernard Lazare
Who Wrote These Preserved Quotes
283 authors contributed a total of 319 Preserved Quotes, led by these top contributors: