Best Connexion Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“With this in mind, for some twenty years I have set myself as my particular task the experimental investigation of the connexion between change in the structure and change in the spectra of chemical atoms.”

Years Mind Particular Tasks Twenties Structure Chemicals Atoms Investigation Connexion

Author:Johannes Stark

“No word in our language - not even "Socialism" - has been employed more loosely than "Mysticism." The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut.”

Has Beens Language Mystery Divine Mouths Socialism Greek Mysticism Employed Mystic Esoteric Connexion

Author:William Ralph Inge

“Young ladies who think of nothing but dress, public amusements, and forming what they call high connexions, are undoubtedly most easily managed, by the fear of what the world will say of them.”

Thinking World Young Dresses Amusement Young Ladies Connexion

Book:Works

Source: Works

“We may, indeed, say that the hour of death is uncertain, but when we say this we think of that hour as situated in a vague and remote expanse of time; it does not occur to us that it can have any connexion with the day that has already dawned and can mean that death -- or its first assault and partial possession of us, after which it will never leave hold of us again -- may occur this very afternoon, so far from uncertain, this afternoon whose time-table, hour by hour, has been settled in advance.”

Thinking Firsts May Mean Doe Has Beens Hours Tables Possession Afternoon Uncertain Vague Assault Expanse Connexion

Author:Marcel Proust

“In all ages of the world, priests have been enemies to liberty; and it is certain, that this steady conduct of theirs must have been founded on fixed reasons of interest and ambition. Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds, on which it is commonly founded; and, by an infallible connexion, which prevails among all kinds of liberty, this privilege can never be enjoyed, at least has never yet been enjoyed, but in a free government.”

Source: Essays Moral, Political, Literary: Revision of Great Book

“A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.”

Has Beens Numbers Plans Objects Research Errors Defined Certainty Inquiry Fallacy Small Numbers Connexion

Book:A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

Source: A Treatise on Political Economy; Or, The Production, Distribution, and Consumption of Wealth

“But since the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) employ a very clever artifice, namely, to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement into one whole, scattered and disjointed one from another, so as to appear to be in doubt and uncertainty, while they are in reality firm and steadfast, it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out the connexion between them, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil.”

“Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.”

Company Family Seeking Good Company Connexion

Book:Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)

Source: Persuasion. Northanger Abbey (Two Novels)

“The necessary connexion of representatives with taxes, seems to have sunk deep into many of those minds, that admit sounds, without their meaning.”

Mind Seems Sound Taxes Representatives Taxation Connexion

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: Lives of the poets

“If Julian had flattered himself that his personal connexion with the capital of the East would be productive of mutual satisfaction to the prince and people, he made a very false estimate of his own character, and of the manners of Antioch. The warmth of the climate disposed the natives to the most intemperate enjoyment of tranquillity and opulence; and the lively licentiousness of the Greeks was blended with the hereditary softness of the Syrians.”

Source: The Student's Gibbon: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the harvest, and, in general, that to obtain such or such ends, such or such means are conducive, all this we know, not by discovering any necessary connexion between our ideas, but only by the observation of the settled laws of nature, without which we should be all in uncertainty and confusion, and a grown man no more know how to manage himself in the affairs of life than an infant just born.”

Source: Principles of Human Knowledge

“We learn the influence of our will from experience alone. And experience only teaches us, how one event constantly follows another; without instructing us in the secret connexion, which binds them together, and renders them inseparable.”

Together Secret Teach Influence Events Experience Inseparable Connexion

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding: Revision of Great Book

“My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.”

May Country States Political Desire United United States Influence Independent Other Countries Ardent Connexion

Book:The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

Source: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799

“Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.”

Action Belief Sincerity Our Words Connexion Belief And Action

Book:Sketches and Essays

Source: Sketches and Essays

“The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent period encumbered mathematics in all those branches involving the consideration of negative and impossible quantities, will at once occur to the reader who is at all versed in this science, and would alone suffice to justify dwelling somewhat on the point, in connexion with any subject so peculiarly fitted to give forcible illustration of it as the Analytical Engine.”

“The further we analyse the manner in which such an engine performs its processes and attains its results, the more we perceive how distinctly it places in a true and just light the mutual relations and connexion of the various steps of mathematical analysis; how clearly it separates those things which are in reality distinct and independent, and unites those which are mutually dependent.”

Reality Light Process Results Steps Relation Independent Various Mathematical Perceive Analysis Dependent Mutual Engines Connexion Mathematical Analysis

Author:Ada Lovelace

“Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connexions they have found worth marketing, in the lifetimes of many generation; these surely are likely to be more numerous, more sound, since they have stood up to the long test of thee survival of the fittest, and more subtle, at least in all ordinary and reasonably practical matters, than any that you or I are likely to think up in our arm-chairs of an afternoon-the most favoured alternative method.”

“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world.”

Source: Women Make the Best Friends: A Celebration

“Love That’s it: The cashless commerce. The blanket always too short. The loose connexion. To search behind the horizon. To brush fallen leaves with four shoes and in one’s mind to rub bare feet. To let and rent hearts; or in a room with shower and mirror, in a hired car, bonnet facing the moon, wherever innocence stops and burns its programme, the word in falsetto sounds different and new each time. Today, in front of a box office not yet open, hand in hand crackled the hangdog old man and the dainty old woman. The film promised love.”

“What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!”

People World Has Beens Light Together House Sides Steps This World Opposites Towns Rays Nevertheless Outlaw Powder Mercury Brooms Rays Of Light Connexion

Book:Bleak House

Source: Bleak House

“There are a multitude of allied branches of knowledge connected with mans condition; the relation of these to political economy is analogous to the connexion of mechanics, astronomy, optics, sound, heat, and every other branch more or less of physical science, with pure mathematics.”

Political Sound Knowledge Economy Conditions Pure Relation Mathematics Connected Astronomy Heat Branches Multitudes Mechanic Physical Science Political Economy Optics Connexion

Book:The Theory of Political Economy

Source: The Theory of Political Economy

“We need only reflect on what has been prov'd at large, that we are never sensible of any connexion betwixt causes and effects, and that 'tis only by our experience of their constant conjunction, we can arrive at any knowledge of this relation.”

Needs Has Beens Science Causes Knowledge Effects Relation Constant Sensible Cause And Effect Conjunctions Connexion

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature

“The person who observes a clock, sees in it not only the pendulum swinging to and fro, and the dial-plate, and the hands moving, for a child can see all this; but he sees also the parts of the clock, and in what connexion the suspended weight stands to the wheel-work, and the pendulum to the moving hands.”

Children Persons Hands Moving Science Weight Observation Clock Wheels Plates Suspended Pendulums Connexion

Author:Justus von Liebig

“Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.”

Knows Evil Masters Slavery Slave Familiar Proportion Harshness Diffusion Connexion Masters And Slaves

Author:Jefferson Davis

“The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its parts, the infinite hierarchy and absolute evidence of the truths with which it is concerned, these, and such like, are the surest grounds of the title of mathematics to human regard, and would remain unimpeached and unimpaired were the plan of the universe unrolled like a map at our feet, and the mind of man qualified to take in the whole scheme of creation at a glance.”

Source: The Collected Mathematical Papers: (1870-1883)

“When the copulative kai [`and'] connects two nouns of the same case, [viz. nouns (either substantive or adjective, or participles), of personal description, respecting office, dignity, affinity, or connexion, and attributes, properties, or qualities, good or ill], if the article [ho], or any of its cases, precedes the first of the said nouns or participles, and is not repeated before the second noun or participle, the latter always relates to the same person that is expressed or described by the first noun or participle: i.e. it denotes a farther description of the first-named person.”

Ifs Firsts Persons Said Two Quality Cases Office Dignity Property Ill Relate Latter Description Attributes Articles Adjectives Affinity Nouns Connexion

Author:Granville Sharp

“I end with a word on the new symbols which I have employed. Most writers on logic strongly object to all symbols. ... I should advise the reader not to make up his mind on this point until he has well weighed two facts which nobody disputes, both separately and in connexion. First, logic is the only science which has made no progress since the revival of letters; secondly, logic is the only science which has produced no growth of symbols.”

Should Mind Firsts Wells Made Two Ends Facts Growth Progress Objects Reader Letters Logic Symbols Employed Disputes Advise Revival Connexion

Book:Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic

Source: Syllabus of a Proposed System of Logic

“I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.”

Success Opinion Cases Bird Instance Connexion

Book:On the Organic Law of Change

Source: On the Organic Law of Change

“The senses are the organs by which man places himself in connexion with exterior objects.”

Men Objects Senses Organs Exterior Connexion

Book:The Physyology of Taste

Source: The Physyology of Taste

“The most noble and profitable invention of all other, was that of SPEECH, consisting of Names or Appellations, and their Connexion; whereby men register their Thoughts; recall them when they are past; and also declare them one to another for mutuall utility and conversation; without which, there had been amongst men, neither Commonwealth, nor Society, nor Contract, nor Peace, no more than amongst Lyons, Bears, and Wolves.”

Men Past Science Names Bears Conversation Speech Noble Invention Contracts Recalls Profitable Utility Register Commonwealth Connexion

Book:Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

Source: Hobbes: Leviathan: Revised student edition

“Promotion of health generally by improving the standard of living. From the health point of view we are in this connexion first and foremost interested in the three fundamental environmental factors: housing (including family life), nutrition, and working conditions (including human relations as well as material conditions).”

Source: Health service, society, and medicine: present day health services in their relation to medical science and social structures