Analysis Quote by Samuel Alexander Download Open image “Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.” — Samuel Alexander ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Analysis Curiosity Pieces
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last; and perhaps always predominates in proportion to the strength of the contemplative faculties. He who easily comprehends all that is before him, and soon exhausts any single subject, is always eager for new inquiries; and in proportion as the intellectual eye takes in a wider prospect, it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect. Every advance into knowledge opens new prospects, and produces new incitements… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is a gift, a capacity of pleasure in knowing, which if you destroy, you make yourself cold and dull. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Curiosity is the beginning of the mind, Wonder is the end of the mind. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“When curiosity is an end in itself—a perspective, a viewpoint, a way of life—then it fuels an easy, egoless, playful relationship between ourselves and… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
For psychological purposes the most important differences in conation are those in virtue of which the object is revealed as sensed or perceived or… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
The mental act of sensation which issues in reflex movement is so simple as to defy analysis. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
But unfortunately Locke treated ideas of reflection as if they were another class of objects of contemplation beside ideas of sensation. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
It may be added, to prevent misunderstanding, that when I speak of contemplated objects in this last phrase as objects of contemplation, the act… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience. — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
You can mark in desire the rising of the tide, as the appetite more and more invades the personality, appealing, as it does, not… — Samuel Alexander Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Combining the experience of a seasoned university president with the analysis of a respected legal scholar, Derek Bok explores what he concludes are 'signs of excessive commercialization in every part of the university.' His somber assessment of the current state of athletics, scientific research, and distance education, and his call for review and restraint, should engage the attention of every… — Frank H. T. Rhodes Copy Share
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were… — Danny Baker Copy Share
Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Democracy is not being well served as we're accustomed to. There is less information, there's less investigation, there's less analysis, there's less accountability. — Edward Greenspon Copy Share Image
As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
The capitalistic social order, therefore, is an economic democracy in the strictest sense of the word. In the last analysis, all decisions are dependent… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Class is entirely intangible, and the way it affects things isn't subject to scientific analysis, and it's not supposed to be real but it's… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
I've always made my decisions based on two factors: intellectual analysis and my gut. And when they meet, that's a go from me. That's… — Michael Ovitz Copy Share Image
What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it -… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
We are well aware that he spent many hours recently tape recording various messages... we need to do a little more analysis of what… — Geoff Hoon Copy Share Image
