Transmitted Quotes
101 quotes by 95 authors
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and thus almost indefinitely strengthened, but…
— Annie Besant
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The great art of films does not consist of descriptive movement of face and body but in the movements of thought and soul transmitted in…
— Louise Brooks
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Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.
— Peter Gabriel
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Happiness is sorrow; sorrow is happiness. There is happiness in difficulty; difficulty in happiness. Even though the ways we feel are different, they are not…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents.
— Shannon Fife
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Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of…
— Nikola Tesla
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So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence,…
— Charles Darwin
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The stubbornness I had as a child has been transmitted into perseverance. I can let go but I don't give up. I don't beat myself…
— Phylicia Rashad
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Abstinence-only education - the best STD (Sexually Transmitted Disease) and pregnancy delivery system that politicians have ever devised.
— Rachel Maddow
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Biologists have long attempted by chemical means to induce in higher organisms predictable and specific changes which thereafter could be transmitted in series as hereditary…
— Oswald Avery
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Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
— Edwin Powell Hubble
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While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether…
— Theobald Smith
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[Culture] denotes an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms, by means of which men…
— Clifford Geertz
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When two plants, constantly different in one or several traits, are crossed, the traits they have in common are transmitted unchanged to the hybrids and…
— Gregor Mendel
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...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.
— Gottlob Frege
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In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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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
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We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's…
— Isidore of Seville
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If men were equally at risk from this condition - if they knew their bellies might swell as if they were suffering from end-stage cirrhosis,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost…
— Billie Jean King
Who Wrote These Transmitted Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 101 Transmitted Quotes, led by these top contributors: