Second Quotes

6250 quotes by 4203 authors

...the limitations of my endurance were expanded over and over. At times I felt that if I did not sit down I would collapse. Then… — Marlo Morgan
"You were not born to be a second-hander." Howard Roark to Gail Wynand in "The Fountainhead" — Ayn Rand
If a man aspires to the highest place, it is no dishonor to him to halt at the second. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The most difficult instrument to play in the orchestra is second fiddle. — Leonard Bernstein
All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second. — Harry Browne
I say that the Second Amendment doesn't allow for exceptions - or else it would have read that the right "to keep and bear arms… — Harry Browne
Foolish liberals who are trying to read the Second Amendment out of the constitution by claiming it's not an individual right or that it's too… — Alan Dershowitz
Truth, in its struggles for recognition, passes through four distinct stages. First, we say it is damnable, dangerous, disorderly, and will surely disrupt society. Second,… — Elbert Hubbard
Every successful man or great genius has three particular qualities in common. The most conspicuous of these is that they all produce a prodigious amount… — Walter Russell
Comfort kills! If your goal in life is to be comfortable, I guarantee two things. First, you will never be rich. Second, you will never… — T. Harv Eker
The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of the glycogenic material… — Claude Bernard
A sound Physics of the Earth should include all the primary considerations of the earth's atmosphere, of the characteristics and continual changes of the earth's… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
During my second year at Edinburgh [1826-27] I attended Jameson's lectures on Geology and Zoology, but they were incredible dull. The sole effect they produced… — Charles Darwin
By this we may understand, there be two sorts of knowledge, whereof the one is nothing else but sense, or knowledge original (as I have… — Thomas Hobbes
Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the… — Immanuel Kant
The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual beliefs… — Michael Polanyi
The second great product of industry should be the rewarding life for every person — Edwin Land
As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the… — Michael Shermer
[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing,… — Carl Sagan

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