Quotes with triumph

  • A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
  • The best product should be bought, the best man should be rewarded more. Interfering factors which befuddle this triumph of virtue, justice, truth, and efficiency, etc., should be kept to an absolute minimum or should approach zero as a limit.
  • Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
  • Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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  • Maggie Kuhn Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.
    Maggie Kuhn
    American activist (1905 - 1995)
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  • George Orwell A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Pierre Corneille A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.
    Pierre Corneille
    French playwright (1606 - 1684)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Max Planck A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
    Max Planck
    German physicist (1858 - 1947)
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  • Maxwell Planck A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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  • Edmund Burke All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Og Mandino Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Seneca Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Mao Tse-Tung Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated. Such is history; such is the history of civilization for thousands of years.
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Coalitions though successful have always found this, that their triumph has been brief.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Do you recall the laughter of the Philistines at the helpless Sampson? You can hear the echo of that laughter to-day, as the church, shorn of her strength by her own sin, is an object of ridicule to the world, who cry in derision, Where is your boasted triumph and your Millennial glory?
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Sagan Every cell is a triumph of natural selection, and we’re made of trillions of cells. Within us, is a little universe.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is due to the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Sunday God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
    Billy Sunday speaks (1970)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Nelson Mandela I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
    Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Ronald Reagan I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Audre Lorde I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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