Takes Quotes

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The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane… — Albert Einstein
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
Wonder [admiratio astonishment, marvel] is a kind of desire for knowledge. The situation arises when one sees an effect and does not know its cause,… — Thomas Aquinas
Science proceeds more by what it has learned to ignore than what it takes into account. — Galileo Galilei
Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside… — Thomas Huxley
Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts. He who doth not kill… — John Owen
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of… — John Owen
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… — Francis Bacon
An Experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a Scientific Experiment the circumstances are so arranged that the… — James Clerk Maxwell
If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression… — George Polya
It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it. — John Charles Polanyi
That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration. — Agnes Martin
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. — Elizabeth Drew
You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness… — Jon Kabat-Zinn
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and… — Harrison Ford
Art takes nature as its model. — Aristotle
The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We can begin by doing small things at the local level, like planting community gardens or looking out for our neighbors. That is how change… — Grace Lee Boggs
Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him. — Louis Pasteur
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army. — Joseph Stalin
To be born in imbecility, in the midst of pain and crisis; to be the plaything of ignorance, error, need, sickness, wickedness, and passions; to… — Denis Diderot
For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity. — Giorgio Armani
Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents… — Gerhard Richter

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