Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Foucault

The 'Enlightenment', which discovered the liberties, also invented the disciplines.

Theodor Adorno

Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the more unreservedly one grasps the individual as a self-contained and dynamic entity, the closer one draws to that in the individual which is really no longer individual.

Terry Pratchett

The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.

Margaret Drabble

There would be more genuine rejoicing at the discovery of a complete new novel by Jane Austen than any other literary discovery, short of a new major play by Shakespeare.

Margaret J. Wheatley

We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan.

Michael Faraday

Why, sir, there is every probability that you will soon be able to tax it! Said to William Gladstone, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he asked about the practical worth of electricity.

I guess there's a point when all of us had lost faith in anything that was new, which helped us discover a lot of really good old records. It's kind of a fresh, nice thing for them to do to pull back from those old records and take those influences and make them into something new that is appreciative of the past yet turning a new page.

If the meeting takes place, the President will discuss about the follow up of normalization of military relationship between US-Indonesia. For instance, the realization of military equipment we have ordered.

Ed Rendell

If there was a way to discourage trash constitutionally, I would sure as heck take a hard look at it. I don't think there is. So I don't think there's a choice here.

It has meant that they've traded at a big discount to the others. People have been suspecting there's something wrong with the company. So there's been some people holding back.

Jaime Ray Newman

I just feel like they're a network I have a good vibe with, and I'm very grateful. My first job with a network was 'General Hospital,' and that was ABC. I feel like I have so much history with them, that they treat their shows well, and they have good, discerning taste.

Clearly, ethanol is something we are doing now that we can do more of that will provide at least a part of the solution for the future. We wouldn't be having this discussion if oil was $25 a barrel.

I'm saying the disclosure that it was done for efficiency purposes was wrong.

David Rockefeller

If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress

I had to figure it out for myself, so I started reading Kodak books, ... I really enjoyed it when I finally discovered what I was doing.

Jack Reed

The financial crisis is a stark reminder that transparency and disclosure are essential in today's marketplace.

Virginia Woolf

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards the members of another herd. But the man who has travelled, or who has studied international politics, will have discovered that, if he had to prosper, it must, to some

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it

Nate Berkus

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Milan Kundera

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Marcel Proust

The one thing more difficult than following a regimen is not imposing it on others.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Addison

A satire should expose nothing but what is corrigible, and should make a due discrimination between those that are and those that are not the proper objects of it.

Joseph Addison

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

James Russell Lowell

Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

James Randi

Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.

Lamar S. Smith

I support basic research, which can lead to discoveries that change our world, expand our horizons and save lives.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Competition is like experimentation in science, a discovery process, and it must rely on the self interest of producers, it must allow them to use their knowledge for their purposes, because nobody else possesses the information

Louise Erdrich

If only I had discipline, but alas, it is only an obsessive-compulsive trait and the beauty of habit that causes me to return again and again to my work.

And I made a discovery last night. I told my wife I made a discovery, and sure enough today I was making putts.

The human element allows for the right kind of discussion to get a true consensus. It's powerful, it's poignant and it's human, and for us it works.

Paul Dirac

The electric field in this picture from discrete Faraday lines of force, which are to be treated as physical things, like strings.