Humphry Davy Quotes
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.Humphry Davy
Quotes to Explore
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
Manoj Bhargava -
Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
M. J. Rose -
Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
Taylor Caldwell -
I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
Edgar Ramirez -
I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
Barry Eisler -
Take heed, then, often to come together to give thanks to God, and show forth His praise. For when you assemble frequently in the same place, the powers of Satan are destroyed, and the destruction at which he aims is prevented by the unity of your faith.
Ignatius of Antioch
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
Nadia Boulanger -
The stage is where I feel most comfortable, and I miss it all the time.
Victor Garber -
Simplicity should not be identified with bareness.
Felix Adler -
Ghost! I miss him! Is that weird? I miss him even though I invented him. I feel a lot of tenderness toward him. I don't write a lot of stuff that is sad or that is tender and affectionate, so that has a very special place in my heart.
Mallory Ortberg -
I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.
Rachel Roy -
Hell is paved with good intentions.
Samuel Johnson
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I am glad that he thanks God for anything.
Samuel Johnson -
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but the endless, tameless pilgrimage of hearts.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
Every Sunday I’d take a 20-minute bus ride to his house in Beverley Hills for a one-hour lesson and be there for four hours ... They had four sons, they didn’t have a daughter and I kind of fitted in as the baby of the family.
Nancy Cartwright -
Live as on a mountain. ...Let men see, let them know a real man who lives according to nature. If they cannot endure him, let them kill him. For that is better than to live thus.
Marcus Aurelius -
No disrespect to Sweden: I didn't think of them as the comedy universe.
Billy Crystal -
I think family is the most important thing in the world. I think your own family is the most complicated thing in the world, and I think it's the most beautiful thing in the world.
Jake Gyllenhaal
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Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.
Alison Gopnik -
It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.
Jacques Maritain -
You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
Barbara Smith -
I've participated in meetings where there were concerns by ethical experts. There is no clear solution.
Luc Montagnier -
Then Thursday Coyle had his left wrist tied to his right ankle and was still beating this new kid Stockhausen until Schtitt sent Tex Watson down to tell him to knock it off.
David Foster Wallace -
Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument. The native intellectual powers of men in different times are not so much the causes of the different success of their labours, as the peculiar nature of the means and artificial resources in their possession.
Humphry Davy