William Whewell Quotes

We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

William Whewell

• Reflection
• Courses
• Degrees

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Society
  • Fashion
  • Reflection

• I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Love
  • Travel
  • Been

• I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Kids
  • Arts
  • Income

• The wisdom of God's Word is quite clear on believers being unequally yoked. And marrying someone who is not a Christian - who is not a daily disciple of Christ - is being unequally yoked, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • God
  • Wisdom
  • Christian

• Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journalist, the legal system or, in that case of the political system, who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Political
  • Best
  • Legal

• It’s harder to say no when you really mean it.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• I decline the election. - It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Bold

• If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all. (September 5, 1995)

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Women
  • September

• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Stupid
  • Gentleman

• New York City life is different from all other city life. It's incredibly relentless and fast, and I think when I first got here, it was incredibly exciting. It was also so hot. I didn't know New York got so hot. I'm not a fan of the heat!

  

  Matthew James Thomas
  • Life
  • Different
  • City

• When I was married, or a few years ago, I never thought I was fat. I never thought I was huge. I was like, 'I still look good. I'm just made to have curves or be a little bigger.'

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Good

• Each Disney princess is unique in their own way, but Moana is especially close to my heart because she's Polynesian.

  

  Auli'i Cravalho
  • Heart
  • She
  • Unique

• We must not let ourselves be seen as rushing around the world looking for arguments... Nor should we let ourselves be seen as ignoring allies, disillusioning friends, thinking only of ourselves in the most narrow terms. That is not how we survived the 20th century. Nor will it serve in the 21st.

  

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Friends

• The state is obliged to fight corruption within the government.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto

• I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work through a sentence.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Work

• Every so often, when I am feeling plucky, I try to write a screenplay that combines all 10 of Americans' top phobias and market it as a sleeper hit.

  

  Alexandra Petri
  • Feeling

• I never invite idiots to my house.

  

  Elizabeth Montagu
  • House

• We vainly fancy ourselves above the ugly informing and paranoia of the right-wing McCarthy era, but in the 21st century, the Left has fashioned a mirror image.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Mirror
  • Ugly

• The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

  

  Charles Kennedy

• The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Play
  • Church
  • Public

• I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?'

  

  Justin Moore
  • Book
  • Shows
  • Ends

• I really am disappointed when I run into people who are angry I'm leaving office.

  

  Matt Gonzalez
  • People
  • Angry
  • Leaving

• We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

  

  Mona Simpson
  • Forever
  • Chunks

• We cannot observe external things without some degree of Thought; nor can we reflect upon our Thoughts, without being influenced in the course of our reflection by the Things which we have observed.

  

  William Whewell
  • Reflection
  • Courses
  • Degrees