Quotes with world-view

Quotes 3041 till 3060 of 3096.

  • Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific forces at our disposal, which we are clever enough to release, but whose consequences we cannot comprehend.
    Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
    Hungarian physician and Nobel Prize winner in Medicine (1893 - 1986)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I know this world is ruled by infinite intelligence. Everything that surrounds us - everything that exists - proves that there are infinite laws behind it. There can be no denying this fact. It is mathematical in its precision.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Napoleon If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Betsy Beers In a world where shows have to keep going while the priorities change, I have to stay flexible.
    Betsy Beers
    American television and film producer (1957 - )
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  • Bruno Rossi In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this window, hoping to see something unexpected.
    Bruno Rossi
     
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  • Andre Breton In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Anne Sophie Swetchine In this world of change naught which comes stays and naught which goes is lost.
    Anne Sophie Swetchine
    Russian writer (1782 - 1857)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Irreligion. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Helen Keller My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was stumbling and groping in social blindness.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Bob Beauprez My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Helen Keller Never bend your head. Keep it always high. Look the world straight in the eye.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Albert Schweitzer Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Thomas Carlyle No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Augustus Hare Nothing good bursts forth all at once. The lightning may dart out of a black cloud; but the day sends his bright heralds before him, to prepare the world for his coming.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Bernard Levin Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else will even say 'Bless You'.
    Bernard Levin
    English journalist, author and broadcaster (1928 - 2004)
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