Best Symbols Qoutes
941 Symbols quotes by 737 unique authors
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Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.
— Confucius
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Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol
— Isaac Mizrahi
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Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.
— Dion Fortune
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I think I have never yet done any work with the aim of symbolizing a particular idea, but the fact that a symbol is sometimes…
— M.C. Escher
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To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals…
— John Fire Lame Deer
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It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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The act of giving is simply a behavior, and the gift merely a symbol. It is the energy behind both that will determine their impact…
— Bill Crawford
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I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made…
— Marilyn
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In other words, all of my books are lies. They are simply maps of a territory, shadows of a reality, gray symbols dragging their bellies…
— Ken Wilber
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Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.
— Michael Medved
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A stock is not just a ticker symbol or an electronic blip; it is an ownership interest in an actual business, with an underlying value…
— Benjamin Graham
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The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
— Patrick O'Brian
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The symbol is greater than visible substance. . . . Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care.
— Freya Stark
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We are not entirely sure of the meaning of all of the symbolic stones and their placement. Neither Joseph Smith nor Brigham Young said too…
— Loren C. Dunn
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While self-interest arising from the enjoyment of meat eating is obviously one reason for its entrenchment, and inertia another, a process of language usage engulfs…
— Carol J. Adams
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Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn't get…
— James Webb Young
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The painter who strives to represent reality must transcend his own perception. He must ignore or override the very mechanismsin his mInd that create objects…
— Colin Blakemore
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When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our strength. The real…
— Michael Enzi
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The cypress boat is frequently a symbol of fluctuating intention.
— Arthur Waley
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It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their master is one of perpetual confident boredom. All they betray of the…
— Robley Wilson
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In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The library is a…
— Vartan Gregorian
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If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it…
— Eric Temple Bell
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The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the…
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
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Just as music comes alive in the performance of it, the same is true of mathematics. The symbols on the page have no more to…
— Keith Devlin
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An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list…
— David Berlinski
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