Stand Quotes

7661 Stand quotes by 4427 unique authors

If there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of… — Thomas Jefferson
Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged… — Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If… — Anita Roddick
[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it… — G. H. Hardy
Instead of adjusting students to docile membership in whatever group they happen to be placed, we should equip them to cope with their environment, not… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions… — Charles Darwin
The existing premises, wholly altered by geologic science, are no longer those of Hume. The foot-print in the sand-to refer to his happy illustration-does now… — Hugh Miller
Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one of the amiable colleagues I… — Albert Einstein
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and… — George Boole
In science the successors stand upon the shoulders of their predecessors; where one man of supreme genius has invented a method, a thousand lesser men… — Bertrand Russell
A fact is like a sack which won't stand up if it's empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into… — Luigi Pirandello
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things… — George Johnson
There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before… — Charles Spurgeon
We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its… — John Stott
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same… — Francis Bacon
The idiot, the Indian, the child and unschooled farmer's boy stand nearer to the light by which nature is to be read, than the dissector… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mathematics has not a foot to stand upon which is not purely metaphysical. — Thomas de Quincey
Mathematics is an interesting intellectual sport but it should not be allowed to stand in the way of obtaining sensible information about physical processes. — Richard Hamming
The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers. — Georg Cantor
Making people believe the unbelievable is no trick; it's work. ... Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned tricycle in the gutter… — Stephen King
What is drawing? It is working oneself through an invisible iron wall that seems to stand between what one feels and what one can do. — Vincent Van Gogh
Today Christians ... stand at the head of [this country]... I pledge that I never will tie myself to parties who want to destroy Christianity… — Adolf Hitler
He [God] is using me, all the time, everywhere, to stand up for a biblical worldview in everything that I do and everywhere I am.… — Tom DeLay
If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you… — Dan Barker

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