Us Quotes
47542 Us quotes by 14169 unique authors
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The rules of scientific investigation always require us, when we enter the domains of conjecture, to adopt that hypothesis by which the greatest number of…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique…
— Lewis Thomas
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Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this…
— Wilhelm Wundt
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering…
— Charles Lyell
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The seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well-prepared to receive them.
— Joseph Henry
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To us ... the only acceptable point of view appears to be the one that recognizes both sides of reality-the quantitative and the qualitative, the…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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Very few of us can now place ourselves in the mental condition in which even such philosophers as the great Descartes were involved in the…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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We are at our human finest, dancing with our minds, when there are more choices than two. Sometimes there are ten, even twenty different ways…
— Lewis Thomas
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Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts…
— A C Dixon
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Moving along the upward spiral requires us to learn, commit, and do on increasingly higher planes. We deceive ourselves if we think that any one…
— Stephen Covey
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The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.
— John Owen
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Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a…
— John Owen
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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,…
— John Owen
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When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as…
— John Owen
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He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the…
— John Owen
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Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers,…
— John Owen
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We must hide our unholiness in the wounds of Christ as Moses hid himself in the cleft of the rock while the glory of God…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can…
— John Owen
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Jesus does not divide the world into the moral "good guys" and the immoral "bad guys". He shows us that everyone is dedicated to a…
— Timothy Keller
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...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be…
— John Owen
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Now while they were thus drawing towards the gate, behold, a company of the heavenly host came to meet them; to whom it was said…
— John Bunyan
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We need to repent of the haughty way in which we sometimes stand in judgment upon Scripture and must learn to sit humbly under its…
— John Stott
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...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the…
— Jerry Bridges
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