Would Be Quotes
9158 Would Be quotes by 5066 unique authors
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Without consciousness the mind-body problem would be much less interesting. With consciousness it seems hopeless.
— Thomas Nagel
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We are warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of life there would be many more…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Satan would seem to be mannerly and reasonable; making as if he would be content with one-half of the heart, whereas God challengeth all or…
— Joseph Hall
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Since science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of…
— Jacques Maritain
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And since the portions of the great and the small are equal in number, so too all things would be in everything. Nor is it…
— Anaxagoras
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Human behaviour reveals uniformities which constitute natural laws. If these uniformities did not exist, then there would be neither social science nor political economy, and…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though…
— Martin Gardner
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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts of…
— Herbert Spencer
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For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which…
— Carl Sagan
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It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science…
— Wernher von Braun
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It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity. Whether as a general habit of mind…
— George Boole
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[Professor Pauling] confesses that he had harboured the feeling that sooner or later he would be the one to get the DNA structure; and although…
— Linus Pauling
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I felt a great dislike to journeys, especially when they were long. But once I had started, I thought nothing of them, thinking of Him…
— Teresa of Avila
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As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take this…
— E. M. Forster
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If you do not wish to be lied to, do not ask questions. If there were no questions, there would be no lies.
— B. Traven
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To respect a person is not possible without knowing him; care and responsibility would be blind if they were not guided by knowledge.
— Erich Fromm
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I'm not J.Lo, she's not a real person. She was just a bit of fun that got really crazy. I've never been anyone but Jennifer.…
— Jennifer Lopez
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Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
— Henry Fielding
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At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of…
— Jimmy Connors
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Life is not static. If life were static there would be no need for meditation. The mind would do. Then you could think, and whenever,…
— Rajneesh
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If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Miserliness has its own conveniences, otherwise nobody would be a miser. If you are not a miser, you become more insecure. If you cling to…
— Rajneesh
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Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and…
— Zig Ziglar
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