Subjects
The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willingly have anyone electrocuted who disagreed with him on the subject
Author: Thomas Bailey AldrichTopics: conviction, Courage, Famous, Fanaticism, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Murder, Subjects
Genius is subject to the same laws which regulate the production of cotton and molasses
Author: Thomas Babington MacaulayTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Genius, Life, Meaningful, Subjects
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Danger, Faith, Famous, Meaningful, Subjects
The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words
Author: Thomas AquinasTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Motive, Saying, Speech, Subjects
No error is more certain than the one proceeding from a hasty and superficial view of the subject.
Author: James MadisonTopics: Error, Famous, Hasty, Point of view, Points of view, Subjects
Whenever you bring up women’s internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they’re trying to change the laws.
Author: Gail CollinsTopics: Change, Famous, Guy, Laws, Subjects, Trying
It’s important to let your subjects be themselves.
Author: George Haven PutnamTopics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Important, Life, Meaningful, People, Positive, Subjects, Themselves
What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subject
Author: Thomas SowellTopics: Dangerous, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Subjects
Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Dead, Death, Famous, Feelings, Life, Meaningful, Moment, Monarchy, Obtain, Subjects
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted
Author: Thomas PaineTopics: Exhausted, Famous, Frenzy, Life, Loose, Meaningful, Passion, Pen, Subjects, Tongue
He was like a man thinking on an abstract subject all the time.
Author: H. W. BrandsTopics: Famous, Man, Subjects, Thinking, Time
Life is a debatable subject, and Wells too pondered on this very question, providing us with many quotes for us to think over.
Author: H. G. WellsTopics: Famous, Life, Provided, Questions, Quotes, Subjects, Think off
Private and public life are subject to the same rules-truth and manliness are two qualities that will carry you through this world much better than policy or tact of expediency or other words that were devised to conceal a deviation from a straight line.
Author: Robert E. LeeTopics: Famous, Private, Public, qualities, Straight, Subjects, World
Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew that the eye of heaven is upon you, and that you are living under the approbation or disapprobation of God.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Christian, Experiences, Famous, Heaven, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Subjects
Do not make yourself the subject of remarks either by being overdressed or by dressing in a lax, untidy manner. Act as though you knew that the eye of heaven is upon you, and that you are living under the approbation or disapprobation of God.
Author: Ellen G. WhiteTopics: Dressing, Famous, God, Heaven, Inspirational, Life, Manner, Meaningful, Subjects
This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking.
Author: G. Stanley HallTopics: Famous, Ideal, Inspirational, Mathematics, Science, Subjects, Thinking
When I miss one workout session, it’s like missing a discussion with your classmates, where six people are discussing a subject.
Author: Eliud KipchogeTopics: Discuss, Discussion, Famous, Inspirational, Meaningful, Subjects
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Campus, Famous, General, Humanities, People, Study, Subjects, Theoretical
Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
Author: H. R. GigerTopics: Earth, Famous, Meaningful, Photograph, Subjects
Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.
Author: Richard P. FeynmanTopics: Danger, Famous, Generation, Greatest, Infallibility, Lesson, Science, Subjects
I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.
Author: Clint Eastwood
Topics: Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Genius, Haters, Hates, Life, Meaningful, Question, Questioned, Something, Sometimes, Style, Subjects
In book subjects a student can only do a student’s work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Measured, Promise, Students, Subjects
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Obsolete, Subjects
Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. SO for more than 60 years I have kept studying one subject at a time.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Enough, Famous, Meaningful, Subjects, Understand
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Subjects
You are protected. But if you don’t take risks, God will retreat and become only a subject of philosophical speculation.
Author: Paulo CoelhoTopics: Famous, God, Philosophical, Protected, Retreats, Risks, Subjects
More business decisions occur over lunch and dinner than at any other time, yet no MBA courses are given on the subject.
Author: Peter DruckerTopics: Business, Dinner, Famous, Meaningful, More, Subjects, Time
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
Author: George EliotTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Narrow mind, Points of view, Subjects
The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good for a Judo man
Author: Bruce LeeTopics: Goodness, Man’s Sport, Style, Subjects
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one’s subject matter.
Author: Margaret MeadTopics: Famous, Grasp, Intelligent, Laboratory, Meaningful, Subjects, Understand, University, Until, Walls
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.
Author: Arthur SchopenhauerTopics: Famous, Life, Meaningful, Subjects
And if the fixed stars are the centers of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One.
Author: Isaac NewtonTopics: Center, Dominion, Famous, Inspirational, Subjects
I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.
Author: Isaac NewtonTopics: Famous, Inspirational, Subjects, Waiting
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
Author: Neil deGrasse TysonTopics: Chemistry, Famous, Life, Meaningful, Physics, Public, Separate, Subjects
A writer should be as objective as a chemist; he should lay aside his personal desires and prejudices and study his subject from every angle.
Author: Anton ChekhovTopics: Chemicals, Famous, Feelings, Life, Personal, Personal Desire, Study, Subjects
An artist is not a master of himself, he is not the master of his subject, but he is a servant of his vision
Author: Anton ChekhovTopics: Famous, Feelings, Life, Master, Meaningful, Subjects, Visions
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
Author: Benjamin DisraeliTopics: Famous, Meaningful, Subjects
To take the thought or style of another writer whom one has never, never read.
Author: Ambrose BierceTopics: Ability, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Inspirational, Learn, Learning, Life, Meaningful, Style, Subjects
One story sounds good until another is told
Author: AesopTopics: Ability, Experiences, Famous, Feelings, Good, Inspirational, Life, Meaningful, Positive, Story, Strength, Struggle, Subjects, Substance, Title, Together, Told