Ideas Quote by George Polya

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like…

— Clifton Fadiman

A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.

— George Polya

In order to translate a sentence from English into French two things are necessary. First, we must understand thoroughly the English sentence. Second, we…

— George Polya

But as Nature is the best guide, teaching must be the development of natural inclinations, for which purpose the teacher must watch his pupil…

— Michel de Montaigne

Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into…

— Flora Thompson

A lonely Autumn leaf on the road by sticking to another one becomes more resistant to harsh winds. Unity is the midwife of security!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

The artist's job, I think, is to be a conduit for mystery. To intuit it, and recognize that the story-germ has some inherent mystery…

— George Saunders

The sobs and tears of joy he had not foreseen rose with such force within him that his whole body shook and for a…

— Anonymous

My dad is a nurse midwife, one of about only 50 male midwives in the U.S., I think.

— Matthew Morrison

Country music has been empowering to women. Women invented it - it was women singing to their children that built country music. The people…

— Ketch Secor

Midwives and doctors play a crucial role preventing unnecessary maternal deaths. They educate women about nutrition, health and family planning. And they step in…

— Liya Kebede

“a midwife’s role was to work with nature, whereas a doctor was trained to seek out its defects and remedy them.”

— Gabrielle Palmer