Trial Quotes
730 quotes by 556 authors
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Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
— Leon Brown
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Trials make room for consolation. There is nothing that makes man have a big heart like a great trial. I have found that those people…
— Charles Spurgeon
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For each thorn, there's a rosebud... For each twilight - a dawn... For each trial - the strength to carry on, For each storm cloud…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches.
— Abraham Lincoln
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Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood…
— Winston Churchill
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This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
— William Westmoreland
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On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success…
— Winston Churchill
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We know the laws of trial and error, of large numbers and probabilities. We know that these laws are part of the mathematical and mechanical…
— Albert Claude
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Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
— Gail Sheehy
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Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial: force it to answer the interrogatories put to it…
— Richard Baxter
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We send cruise missiles and then we think everything's all right or we try to bring them to trial. My friends, this time they've gone…
— John McCain
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We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air,…
— Amy Carmichael
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Necessity is not the mother of invention. Knowledge and experiment are its parents. It sometimes happens that successful search is made for unknown materials to…
— Willis R. Whitney
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As Karl Marx once noted: 'Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the…
— Michael Shermer
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Angling may be said to be so like the Mathematics that it can never be fully learnt; at least not so fully but that there…
— Izaak Walton
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If I want my daughter to try something, I eat it in front of her repeatedly without forcing the issue and, with some trial and…
— Alexandra Guarnaschelli
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I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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