Thing Quotes

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In order to the attaining of all useful knowledge this is most necessary, that we fear God; we are not qualified to profit by the… — Matthew Henry
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense,… — Baron d'Holbach
...an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient… — Wilhelm Wundt
The members of the department became like the Athenians who, according to the Apostle Paul, "spent their time in nothing else, but either to tell… — Joel Henry Hildebrand
You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second,… — Linus Pauling
On the altar you are looking at the same thing as you saw there last night. You have not heard, however, what this is, what… — Saint Augustine
The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right. — Peter Drucker
A thing well done is worth doing. — Hugh Leonard
A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it. — John Ruskin
Good birth is a fine thing, but the merit is our ancestors. — Plutarch
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one… — Archibald MacLeish
The most important thing women have to do is to stir up the zeal of women themselves. — John Stuart Mill
The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. — Thomas Shadwell
The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
The most amazing thing about little children ... was their fantastic adaptability. — Kristin Hunter
The important thing is not the camera but the eye. — Alfred Eisenstaedt
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a… — Arnold Newman
Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let… — Bob Uecker
That was the truly horrifying thing about it: the sense of time as an enemy, to be fought tooth and nail--but there was so much… — K.J. Parker
For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

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