Foundation Quotes
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The subject for which I am asking your attention deals with the foundations of mathematics. To understand the development of the opposing theories existing in this field one must first gain a clear understnding of the concept "science"; for it is as a part of science that mathematics originally took its place in human thought.
L. E. J. Brouwer
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The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.
Oswald Chambers
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The first step in wisdom is to know the things themselves; this notion consists in having a true idea of the objects; objects are distinguished and known by classifying them methodically and giving them appropriate names. Therefore, classification and name-giving will be the foundation of our science.
Carl Linnaeus
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As we've learned ? or really re-learned ? one can't build a business or our economic future on that type of flimsy foundation.
Craig Mundie
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Every lord's mansion stands on the foundation of your bones, soldier, every field has been saturated with your sweat, and you, peasant, even if you worked your arms down to the stub, if you won a hundred battles, and faithfully gave the last drop of your blood for your country, you would always be a slave. There is no land for you, no heaven, no shelter, not even a doghouse where you could rest your poor head. You are the last before God and before people, the last one.
Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont
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Courage combined with integrity is the foundation of character.
Brian Tracy
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Solving problems is at the foundation of our survival.
Michael McMillian
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The new coherent picture is not yet available. With all their immense empirical success, G(eneral)R(elativity) and Q(uantum)M(echanics) have left us with an understanding of the physical world which is unclear and badly fragmented. At the foundations of physics there is today confusion and incoherence.
Carlo Rovelli
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Even in the King's Gambit ... White is no longer trying to attack at all costs. He has had to adapt his approach and look for moves with a solid positional foundation ... As often as not, his strategy consists of stifling Black's activity and then winning in an endgame thanks to his superior pawn structure.
Neil McDonald
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Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.
Arthur Helps
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In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Long before I was ordained a priest, I knew that my church was the most implacable enemy of this republic. My professors ... had been unanimous in telling me that the principles and laws of the Church of Rome were absolutely antagonistic to the principles which are the foundation stones of the Constitution of the United States of America.
Charles Chiniquy
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Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.
Plutarch
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Fear is the most costly of all the human emotions, even though most fears have no foundation in fact.
Napoleon Hill
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If the gentleman is not serious, he will not be respected, and his learning will not be on a firm foundation. He considers loyalty and faithfulness to be fundamental, has no friends who are not like him, and when he has made mistakes, he is not afraid of correcting them.
Confucius
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Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.
Alexis Soyer
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It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress.
Francis Bacon
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Apologys for self-evident Truths can never have any effect on those who have so little Sense as to deny them. They are the Foundation of all Reasoning, and the only just Bottom on which Men can proceed in convincing one another of the Truth: and by consequence whoever is capable of denying them, is not in a condition to be informed.
Anthony Collins
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Mind is the foundation of man.
Israel ben Eliezer
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I'm still convinced. We all fight for freedom, but the foundation of freedom is equality and justice. And we are all on the road.
Evo Morales
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I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.
Malachy McCourt
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It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The foundation of all civilization is loitering.
Jean Renoir