T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The Universe winks at you constantly, so slow down so you can wink back.”
Source: All In: A Working Mom's Unapologetic Quest for a Juicy Life
“The universe without music would be madness.”
“The universe won’t do this to us,’ I whispered to myself. ‘It’s indifferent, but it isn’t actually cruel.’
Perhaps I believed myself, for a moment or two.”
Source: Inhibitor Phase
“The universe works in mysterious ways and for me it worked out perfectly. With all respect to everybody else, Aaron Sorkin is and was The West Wing, full stop. There's no West Wing without him.”
“The universe, works in ways that are a mystery - Synchronicity”
Source: Coming Home
“The universe works with you and for you. It is not your enemy.”
“The universe would appear to be something like a piece of cheese; it can be sliced in an infinite number of ways- and when one has chosen his own pattern of slicing, he finds that other men's cuts fall at the wrong places.”
Source: Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose
“The Universe yields to me when I ask.”
“The universe you and I are expanding in itself, each and every day.”
“The universe, you and me are one in itself.”
“The universe's destiny has very little to do with the near-term destiny of Earth.”
“The universe, as far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine.... If we dramatize its life and conceive its spirit, we are filled with wonder, terror and amusement, so magnificent is the spirit.”
“The Universe, as has been observed before, is an unsettlingly big place, a fact which for the sake of a quiet life most people tend to ignore.”
Source: The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“The universe, as we see it, is the result of regularly working forces, having a causal connection with each other and therefore capable of being understood by human reason.”
Source: Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon
“The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.”
Source: Bleak House
“The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”
Source: Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition): From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“The universe, I’d learned, was never, ever kidding.”
Source: Wild (Oprah's Book Club 2.0 Digital Edition): From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
“The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.”
Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three
“The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense, an uninterrupted succession of causes and effects.”
“The universe, the solar system, and planet earth in themselves and in their evolutionary emergence constitute for the human community the primary revelation of that ultimate mystery whence all things emerge into being.”
“The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.”
“The universe, which is not merely the stars and the moon and the planets, flowers, grass and trees, but other people, has evolved no terms for your existence, has made no room for you, and if love will not swing wide the gates, no other power will or can. And if one despairs-- as who has not?-- of human love, God's love alone is left.”
“The Universe, wrought for us by a supremely good and orderly Creator.”
“The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.”
“The universities are available only to those who share my revolutionary beliefs.”
“The universities are really going to have to clean up their serious environmental radiation problems before I will advise anyone to enroll.”
“The universities deceive when they say they have no agenda other than to open minds.”
“The universities do not teach all things ... so a doctor must seek out old wives, gypsies, sorcerers, wandering tribes, old robbers, and such outlaws and take lessons from them. A doctor must be a traveller . . . Knowledge is experience.”
“The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?”
Source: Three Treatises
“The universities will ask for money back so they can put their name on the side of a building without fully educating athletes .”
“The university actually had to institute a curfew prohibiting students from studying after 9:30 p.m. because they were beginning to develop very unhealthy sleep habits. When even that did not discourage them from studying in secret, the school simply cut all electrical power to all the classrooms when the clock struck half past nine.”
Source: We Were Dreamers: An Immigrant Superhero Origin Story
“The university and in a general way, all teaching systems, which appear simply to disseminate knowledge, are made to maintain a certain social class in power; and to exclude the instruments of power of another social class.”
“The University brings out all abilities, including incapability.”
“The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.”
Source: Point of View: Talks on Education
“The university graduate has been schooled for selective
service among the rich of the world.
Üniversite bitirenler dünya varsıllarına seçkin hizmetlerde bulunmaları hedefiyle okutulmuşlardır.”
Source: Deschooling Society
“The university has become so stultified since the sixties. There is so much you can't do at the university. You can't say this, you can't do that, you can't think this, and so forth. In many ways, I'm free to range as widely as I do intellectually precisely because I'm not at a university. The tiresome Chicanos would be after me all the time. You know: "We saw your piece yesterday, and we didn't like what you said," or, "You didn't sound happy enough," or, "You didn't sound proud enough."”
“The university is a series of individual entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance about parking.”
“The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.”
“The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be processed in the most efficient way to see to it that they have the fewest dissenting opinions, that they have just those characteristics which are wholly incompatible with being an intellectual. This is a real internal psychological contradiction. People have to suppress the very questions which reading books raises.”
“The university is in danger of losing its monopoly, and for good reason. The most visible threat are the new online courses, many of them free, with some of the best professors in their respective fields.”
“The university is one of various funding structures by which people who want to do theoretical work stay alive, the same way that people go to grad school, not because they think it's going to change the world but because there's no patron system anymore, and they need some scaffolding of support while they're trying to figure out how they can proceed in their lives. I think that's utterly legit. A lot of our better theorists and thinkers, that's what the university is for them.”
“The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.”
Source: The University and the Public Interest
“The university is the archive of the Western mind, it's the keeper of the Western culture, ... the guardian of our heritage, the teacher of our teachers, ... the dwelling place of the free mind.”
“The university is the last remaining platform for national dissent.”
“The university is the place where the pursuit of truth is taught, the rules for learning how to pursue it are explained, and students begin to understand how to evaluate the seriousness of truth. Those are incredibly important lessons, and only the teachers' academic freedom can protect them because there will always be people who disagree with or disapprove of the ideas they are trying to convey.”
“The university is well structured, well tooled, to turn out people with all the sharp edges worn off, the well-rounded person. The university is well equipped to produce that sort of person, and this means that the best among the people who enter must for four years wander aimlessly much of the time questioning why they are on campus at all, doubting whether there is any point in what they are doing, and looking toward a very bleak existence afterward in a game in which all of the rules have been made up, which one cannot really amend.”
“The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed”
Source: Memories and Studies
“The University of California has been selected as the poster child of animal abuse at laboratories. It's been shown that the tactics are more effective if you just hit one person over and over and get them to quit what they're doing.”
“The University of Cambridge, in accordance with that law of its evolution, by which, while maintaining the strictest continuity between the successive phases of its history, it adapts itself with more or less promptness to the requirements of the times, has lately instituted a course of Experimental Physics.”
Source: Maxwell on Molecules and Gases
“The University of Chicago is an astounding place. It's Yeshiva, a priesthood. It gives you an education, but more than that it gives you a mission. Oh, and an arrogance. But being Canadian helps with that.”