Their Predecessors Quotes

21 Their Predecessors quotes by 20 unique authors

It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite… — Winston Churchill
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
Seeing there are many who think they hold the opinions of Christ, and yet some of these think differently from their predecessors, yet as the… — Origen
Young Americans today are no more learned or skilful than their predecessors, no more knowledgeable, fluent, up-to-date, or inquisitive, except in the materials of youth… — Unknown Author
Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with… — Margaret Thatcher
I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so… — Kathleen Parker
Human development is a form of chronological unfairness, since late-comers are able to profit by the labors of their predecessors without paying the same price. — Alexander Herzen
As for the United States' future in Afghanistan, it will be fire and hell and total defeat, God willing, as it was for their predecessors… — Mohammed Omar
Behind the mask of diplomatic and political cooperation and partnership with the United States and Europe, the current Russian leaders are following the strategy of… — Anatoliy Golitsyn
The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the… — Guillaume Apollinaire
Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands. — Stephen Ambrose
OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce
In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone who are masters. — Paul Gauguin
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. — Jim Morrison
Scientists may be in the business of laughing at their predecessors, but owing to an array of human mental dispositions, few realize that someone will… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood… — Scott Westerfeld
It is folly to believe that Congress and the president, on their own, will make the necessary and difficult decisions to address the impending financial… — Mark Levin
Hindsight can be merciless. People of any given era often look back in time and wonder how their predecessors could have been so dimwitted. — James Balog
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years haven't been able… — John Jay Hooker
The people who join the mob now are second- and third-generation and don't have the values their predecessors had. — Unknown Author
Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a… — Bill Parcells

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