Quotes with concerning

  • Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
  • In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
  • The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.
  • Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
  • If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
  • Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
  • My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
  • Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
  • Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.
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  • Carl Levin Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • Robert Montgomery If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Lack of knowledge concerning all the factors and the failure to include them in our integral imposes false conclusions.
    Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • John Milton Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ludwig Van Beethoven Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?
    Ludwig Van Beethoven
    German composer (1770 - 1827)
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  • Baruch Spinoza But if men would give heed to the nature of substance they would doubt less concerning the Proposition that Existence appertains to the nature of substance: rather they would reckon it an axiom above all others, and hold it among common opinions. For then by substance they would understand that which is in itself, and through itself is conceived, or rather that whose knowledge does not depend on the knowledge of any other thing.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Albert J. Nock Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Malcolm X Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • William James Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • A. R. Ammons I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
    Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues (1996 edition), Univ of Michigan Pr
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Albert Einstein In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Arthur E. Waite It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Judgments, value judgments concerning life, for or against, can in the last resort never be true: they possess value only as symptoms, they come into consideration only as symptoms - in themselves such judgments are stupidities.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Agnes Smedley More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
    Agnes Smedley
    American journalist and writer (1892 - 1950)
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  • Robert Montgomery My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • Bertrand Russell Nine-tenths of the appeal of pornography is due to the indecent feelings concerning sex which moralists inculcate in the young; the other tenth is physiological, and will occur in one way or another whatever the state of the law may be.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Peter Carey Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
    Peter Carey
    Australian writer (1943 - )
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