"Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number.……" — John Wesley Powell
"Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words."
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John Wesley Powell
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16 Quotes by John Wesley Powell
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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not;…
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The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources…
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain…
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The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
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The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the…
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Indian nouns are extremely connotive; that is, the name does more than simply denote the thing to which it belongs…
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The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with…
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The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by…
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I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and…
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We are now ready to start on our way down the Great Unknown. Our boats...are chafing each other, as they…
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I am not sure that we can climb out of the canyon here, and, when at the top of the…
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More Comparatively Quotes
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Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may…
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After crossing the Smoky Hill River, I felt comparatively safe as this was the last stream I had to cross.
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Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still…
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All wish to possess knowledge, but few, comparatively speaking, are willing to pay the price.
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Covetousness, anger and foolishness are things to sort out well. When bad things happen in the world, if you look…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Looking comparatively at the good things, you will see that they are not excluded from wisdom, humanity and bravery.
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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or…
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Very few persons, comparatively, know how to Desire with sufficient intensity. They do not know what it is to feel…
— Robert Collier
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
— John Stuart Mill
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Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time, I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm…
— Jackie Kennedy
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Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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