Substance Quotes

936 Substance quotes by 721 unique authors

Habits start out as off-hand remarks, magazine advertisements, friendly hints, experiments - like flimsy cobwebs with little substance. They grow with practice, layer by layer… — Denis Waitley
When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style. — Steve Lawson
So when I appear as a kind of shamanistic figure, or allude to it, I do it to stress my belief in other priorities and… — Joseph Beuys
The substance of the constitution is preserved. That is a fact. — Angela Merkel
Far from creating a new formalism, what these can yield is something far transcending surface values since they not only embody form as beauty, but… — Max Bill
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. — Emile M. Cioran
In truth, the legitimate contention is, not of one age or school of literary art against another, but of all successive schools alike, against the… — Walter Pater
When one studies strongly radioactive substances special precautions must be taken. Dust, the air of the room, and one's clothes, all become radioactive. — Marie Curie
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through… — Ivan Pavlov
Foods of the Gods”) - “After water, cocoa is the single healthiest substance you can put in your mouth. It can easily replace a number… — Chris Kilham
The psychology of the alchemist is that of reveries trying to constitute themselves in experiments on the exterior world. A double vocabulary must be established… — Gaston Bachelard
Then what am I - the body substance which I can see with my eyes and feel with my hands? Or am I this realization,… — Charles Lindbergh
The mineral kingdom consists of the fossil substances found in the earth. These are either entirely destitute of organic structure, or, having once possessed it,… — Torbern Bergman
No pleasure is simpler, no luxury cheaper, no consciousness-altering substance more benign. — James Norwood Pratt
I think hope is not simply looking around and saying that everything’s great – that’s just ridiculous. For hope to have substance, it has to… — Tim Foreman
My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But… — J. Robert Lennon
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
A catalyst is a substance which alters the velocity of a chemical reaction without appearing in the final products. — Wolfgang Ostwald
The cultural integration of psychedelics won't happen overnight, and the question of young people is perhaps the most difficult involved. The first step is for… — Rick Doblin
The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and… — Harriet Martineau
In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think… — Alan Guth
Beginning with brand rather than substance is dangerous. — Peter Thiel
Professors typically spend their time in meetings about planning, policy, proposals, fund-raising, consulting, interviewing, traveling, and so forth, but spend relatively little time at their… — Niklaus Wirth
In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is… — Antoine Lavoisier
All things are linked with one another, and this oneness is sacred; there is nothing that is not interconnected with everything else. For things are… — Marcus Aurelius

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