Ernst Mach Quotes

The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

Ernst Mach

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• Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

  

  Lactantius
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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
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• A lot of guys go, 'Hey, Yog, say a Yogi-ism.' I tell 'em, 'I don't know any.' They want me to make one up. I don't make 'em up. I don't even know when I say it. They're the truth. And it is the truth. I don't know.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• Truth be told, actually, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was not Scorsese. Loved him. But my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma. I actually met De Palma right after I'd done 'Reservoir Dogs,' and I was very beside myself.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Done
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• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
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• I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

  

  Marc Andreesen
  • Poverty
  • Development
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• You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Truth
  • You
  • Rest

• In truth, every creation of the mind is first of all 'poetic' in the proper sense of the word; and inasmuch as there exists an equivalence between the modes of sensibility and intellect, it is the same function that is exercised initially in the enterprises of the poet and the scientist.

  

  Saint-John Perse
  • Mind
  • Truth
  • Same

• To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Truth
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• It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Time
  • Real
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• This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • World
  • Truth
  • Society

• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Music
  • Voice
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• The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • High
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• There's only one race - it's human. We are all brothers and sisters.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Human
  • Race
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• Breaking into a system or exposing its weaknesses is a good thing because truth and knowledge must win out.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Good
  • Truth
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• Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Earth
  • Human
  • Race

• I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • True

• Impure means result in an impure end… One cannot reach truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Alone

• The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Truth
  • Mysterious

• If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I could secretly live among them and learn their ancient ways, but I couldn't keep that kind of ruse up forever.

  

  Jennifer Armintrout
  • Up
  • Live
  • Water

• In Germany I ingested the entire contents of the hotel mini-bar before a show and stuck my fingers in this guy's nostrils because I thought they would fit.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Fit
  • Fingers
  • Germany

• Free markets induce a natural collective reaction by society.

  

  George Ritzer
  • Society
  • Reaction
  • Markets

• I think the act of talking about something - with a friend, or someone in your family, or someone you care about, and you're discussing something that you both admire - can often sharpen your thoughts about what you've read or seen and help you think more clearly about it.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Thinking
  • Care
  • Helping

• The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.

  

  Ernst Mach
  • Truth
  • Race
  • Development