I Quotes
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“It is worth remembering one of the important lessons of the Buck story: a small number of zealous advocates can have an impact on the law that defies both science and conventional wisdom.”
Source: Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck v. Bell
“It is worth remembering that at some point in the very distant past, no human had ever drank milk from a cow.”
Source: Future Food: How Cutting Edge Technology & 3D Printing Will Change the Way You Eat
“It is worth remembering that every writer begins with a naively physical notion of what art is. A book for him or her is not an expression or a series of expressions, but literally a volume, a prism with six rectangular sides made of thin sheets of papers which should include a cover, an inside cover, an epigraph in italics, a preface, nine or ten parts with some verses at the beginning, a table of contents, an ex libris with an hourglass and a Latin phrase, a brief list of errata, some blank pages, a colophon and a publication notice: objects that are known to constitute the art of writing.”
“It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there.”
“It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty.”
Source: The Essence Of Wisdom
“It is worth reminding that being president is a tough job for anybody, and particularly so in the information age. There's such a glut of information. Anything a president says or does is picked up on the Internet or the 24/7 news media and criticized almost instantly. Leaders persuade through their words and as such their words need to be measured and well chosen. It is a tough job.”
“It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die." His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed by susceptibility to the veriest minutiæ of experience, which it reproduces and constructs in fresh and fresh wholes; not the habitual confusion of provable fact with the fictions of fancy and transient inclination, but a breadth of ideal association which informs every material object, every incidental fact with far-reaching memories and storied residues of passion, bringing into new light the less obvious relations to human existence.”
“It is worth repeating to be wary of the thought that you should put the work down and come back to it later. This is the negative mind attempting to delay you from your knowing. (p. x)”
Source: The Power of Naming: A Journey toward Your Soul's Indigenous Nature
“It is worth starting with visions, though, because they establish hopes and fears. History then determines which prevail.”
Source: The Cold War: A New History
“It is worth taking the leap for something you have always wanted to do because until you try you'll never know. Through the experiences I have had and the risks I have taken, I have gained courage and confidence. I didn't start with the courage and confidence. I started with the risk.”
“It is worth the effort to break down silos, get out of the comfort zone, and prepare the future proactively, in order for individuals and businesses to reach the digital premium.”
Source: The Change Agent CIO
“It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.”
“It is worth understanding the science of the absolutely detached (Vitaraag) Lords. This world is your very own, and it is indeed in your very own world that you are facing difficulties; that itself is a wonder, isn't it!”
Source: The Flawless Vision
“It is worth while dying, to find out what life is.”
“It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)
“It is worthless and senseless to seek help in Egypt, because true help comes only from the
Lord, Who created heaven and earth.”
“It is worthwhile adding that the power of the poem to teach not only sensibilities and the subtle movements of the spirit but knowledge, real lasting felt knowledge, is going mostly unnoticed among our scholars. The body of knowledge locked into and releasable from poetry can replace practically any university in the Republic. First things first, then: the primal importance of a poem is what it can add to the individual mind.Poetry is the voice of a poet at its birth, and the voice of a people in its ultimate fulfillment as a successful and useful work of art.”
“It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.”
“It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death.”
“It is worthwhile studying other peoples, because every understanding of another culture is an experiment with our own.”
Source: The Invention of Culture
“It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility.”
“It is worthwhile to explore what your own keystone habits might be; a healthy diet, daily exercise, and sufficient sleep are all key components to consider.”
“It is worthwhile to live and fight courageously for sacred ideals.”
“It is worthwhile to liveand fight courageouslyfor sacred ideals.O blow ye evil windsinto my body's firemy soul you'll never unravel.Even though disappointed a thousand timesor fallen in the fightand everything would worthless seem,I have lived amidst eternity -Be grateful, my soul -My life was worth living.He who was pressed from all sidesbut remained victorious in spiritis welcomed into the choir of heroes.He who overcame the fettersgiving wings to his mindis entering into the golden age ofthe victorious.”
“It is worthy of note that the Chinese and Japanese characters for money and gold are the same.”
“It is worthy to know the techniques than to know the technology”
“It is worthy to note, that the early popularity of Washington was not the result of brilliant achievement nor signal success; on the contrary, it rose among trials and reverses, and may almost be said to have been the fruit of defeat.”
Source: Life of George Washington
“It is woven with the most powerful paradoxes in the Nine Worlds - Wi-Fi with no lag, a politician's sincerity, a printer that prints, healthy deep fried food, and an interesting grammar lecture!'
'Okay, yeah,' I admitted. 'Those things don't exist.”
Source: The Sword of Summer
“It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.”
“It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes
That all things have their center in their dying.”
Source: Selected poems
“It is written in the code of love: He who strikes the blow is himself struck down.”
“It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals.”
“It is written in the scriptures
That no man
Can be a prophet
In his own land
But I am no man
So I will be a prophet
Wherever I choose.”
Source: Nobody Has More of Me
“It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.”
“It is written on the gate of heaven: Nothing in existence is more powerful than destiny. And destiny brought you here, to this page, which is part of your ticket-as all things are-to return to God.”
“It is written that adversity introduces us to ourselves.”
“It is written that God cursed the ground for man's sake. Genesis 3:17. The thorn and the thistle—the difficulties and trials that make his life one of toil and care—were appointed for his good as a part of the training needful in God's plan for his uplifting from the ruin and degradation that sin has wrought.”
Source: STEPS TO CHRIST
“It is written that he who governs well, leads the blind; But that he who teaches, gives them eyes.”
“It is written that the last enemy to be vanquished is death. We should begin early in life to vanquish this enemy by obliterating every trace of the fear of death from our minds. Then can we turn to life and fill the whole horizon of our souls with it, turn with added zest to all the serious tasks which it imposes and to the pure delights which here and there it affords.”
“It is written, 'Be wise as serpents and innocent as doves' (Mt. 10:16). Being like serpents means not ignoring the attacks and wiles of the devil. Like is quickly shown to like. The simplicity of the dove denotes purity of action.”
“It is written, better to be a fool all your days than for one hour to be evil. You are not a fool. They are the fools. For he who causes his neighbor to feel shame loses Paradise himself.”
Source: Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the Letter Writer
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
Source: Ethics of Belief and Other Essays
“It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.”
Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays
“It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free. The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.”
“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.”
Source: Lectures and Essays
“It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what Agnosticism asserts; and, in my opinion, it is all that is essential to Agnosticism. That which Agnostics deny and repudiate, as immoral, is the contrary doctrine, that there are propositions which men ought to believe without logically satisfactory evidence; and that reprobation ought to attach to the profession of disbelief in such inadequately supported propositions.”
Source: Lectures and Essays
“It is wrong for a secular government to promote prayer. We think the National Day of Prayer is unconstitutional. What if the president declared a National Day of Cursing God because He failed us on September 11? Americans would say, "You've overstepped your authority." That's how we feel when he promotes prayer.”
“It is wrong not to give a hand to the fallen. This right is common to the whole human race.”