Transmitted Quotes
101 quotes by 95 authors
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When the husband and wife are healthy, and free from inherited weaknesses and diseases that might be transmitted with injury to their offspring the use…
— David O. McKay
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Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows…
— Swami Vivekananda
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But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and…
— Anais Nin
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The Church must persist in the teaching transmitted to her by Christ.
— Pope John Paul II
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Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as…
— Mark Twain
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Racism is the lowest, most crudely primitive form of collectivism. It is the notion of ascribing moral, social or political significance to a man’s genetic…
— Ayn Rand
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God is not calling us to win the world and, in the process, lose our families. But I have known those who so enshrined family…
— David Shibley
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I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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The infectious values and myths transmitted by bad sportswriters may be the deadliest words in the paper.
— Robert Lipsyte
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Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived…
— May Sarton
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
— Ezra Pound
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If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or…
— Ibn Khaldun
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Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous…
— Herbert Spencer
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If men were to be destroyed and the books they have written were to be transmitted to a new race of creatures, in a new…
— Henry David Thoreau
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It has been said that "to enthuse" means "to fill with spirit," and that spirit of enthusiasm is awaiting release or manifestation. Enthusiasm can be…
— John Templeton
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I would fain coin wisdom,—mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. Would that I could denounce and…
— Joseph Joubert
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In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We…
— Michael Crichton
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We must accept all the implications of our human inheritance, one of the most important of which is the small scope of biologically transmitted behavior,…
— Ruth Benedict
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A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to…
— David Hume
Who Wrote These Transmitted Quotes
95 authors contributed a total of 101 Transmitted Quotes, led by these top contributors: