"Theory is worth but little, unless it can……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
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Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
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The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body)…
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It is of great advantage to the student of any subject to read the original memoirs on that subject, for…
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What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part…
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The history of harmony is the history of the development of the human ear, which has gradually assimilated, in their…
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I'm fascinated by how ethnic communities have assimilated into massive capitalist environments.
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Once you step inside, history has to be rewritten to include you. A fiction develops a story that weaves you…
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An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between…
— Wilfred Trotter
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Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary, sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization, if one…
— Sri Yukteswar Giri
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Food is all those substances which, submitted to the action of the stomach, can be assimilated or changed into life…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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After giving a student the basic mating patterns and strategies you must begin giving them advanced concepts. At first these…
— Jeremy Silman
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A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to…
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