Creatures Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the…

— Alfred North Whitehead

Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.

— Josh Billings

The wrong kind of praise creates self-defeating behavior. The right kind motivates students to learn.

— Carol S. Dweck

An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he…

— Robert A. Heinlein

We increase whatever we praise. The whole creation responds to praise, and is glad.

— Charles Fillmore

We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.

— John Calvin

“Nature deemed that to be born was an automatic sentence to death, and then brought about that death with vicious consistency. We”

— Neal Shusterman

There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Humanity has determined it is supreme in the kingdom of animals, yet [the] beasts live a less tragic existence...and many of their tragedies are…

— T.F. Hodge

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One should use praise to recognize what one is not.

— Elias Canetti