Sine Quotes

25 Sine quotes by 23 unique authors

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key,… — Karen Armstrong
Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated… — Warren G. Bennis
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our… — Stephen Ambrose
A sense of belonging is a sine qua non of healthy psychological functioning everywhere. Such a sense, beginning in infancy and continuing throughout life, comes… — Maureen O'Hara
After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential. — Leonhard Euler
Leisure without literature is death, or rather the burial of a living man -Otium sine litteris mors est et hominis vivi sepultura — Seneca the Younger
Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival". — Robert A. Heinlein
Nulla dies sine linea - Not a day without a line. — Pliny the Elder
To defer anything to the Greek Calends is to defer it sine die. There were no calends in the Greek months. The Romans used to… — E. Cobham Brewer
I think the entire message of the psychedelic experience, which is basically the sine qua non of the rebirth of alchemical understanding, the very basis… — Terence McKenna
There has not been any great talent without an element of madness. -Nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit — Seneca the Younger
Leisure was the sine qua non of the full Renaissance. The feudal nobility, having lost its martial function, sought diversion all over Europe in cultivated… — Mary McCarthy
Sound money is the sine qua non of a prosperous society. — Arthur Laffer
Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason. — Gottfried Leibniz
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity. — William of Ockham
Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. — Janet Malcolm
For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. — Robert A. Heinlein
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets… — John Dewey
I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing. — Sarah Vowell
Self-realization and self-fulfilment are the sine qua non for human existence. — Arthur Miller
The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In any age courage is the simple virtue needed for a human being to traverse the rocky road from infancy to maturity of personality. But… — Rollo May
Marriage is the most obvious public practice about which information is readily available. When combined with the traditional Jewish concern for continuity and self-preservation -… — Noah Feldman
A practical way to travel between the stars is a must-have for space opera, and a sine qua non for our frequently vaunted future as… — Seth Shostak
Jealousy, just a sine that your really in love with a person. — James

Who Wrote These Sine Quotes

23 authors contributed a total of 25 Sine Quotes as follows: