Found Quotes - page 4

If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then? (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice. View quote
Ronald Reagan
water from clay pipes is much more wholesome than that which is conducted through lead pipes, because lead is found to be harmful for the reason that white lead is derived from it, and this is said to be hurtful to the human system. View quote
Vitruvius
Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. View quote
Vitruvius
The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy. View quote
Max Jacob
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. View quote
Annette Funicello
Hardly a competent workman can be found who does not devote a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace. View quote
Frederick Winslow Taylor
It was the laughter of birthdays, of money found in an old pocket. View quote
Ian Rankin
He had wanted so hard to Escape, to find the stars. And all he had found was a new prison. (Catherine Fisher)
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. View quote
Charles Darwin
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found. View quote
William James
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. View quote
Robert Oppenheimer
Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory. View quote
Tennessee Williams
I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. View quote
Tennessee Williams
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. View quote
William Ellery Channing
And the song, from beginning to end, I found in the heart of a friend. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found. (Edmund Burke)
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth. View quote
Edmund Burke
Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. View quote
Wallace Stevens
True love cannot be found where it does not exist, nor can it be denied where it does. View quote
Torquato Tasso
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
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