Built Quotes - page 4

The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless. (Umberto Eco)
In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an enhancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly. View quote
Claude Lévi-Strauss
Cynicism is cheap-you can buy it at any Monoprix store-it's built into all poor-quality goods. View quote
Graham Greene
The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up. View quote
George Sarton
France built its best colony on a principle of exclusion, and failed; England reversed the system, and succeeded. View quote
Francis Parkman
Some writers maintain arithmetic to be only the only sure guide in political economy; for my part, I see so many detestable systems built upon arithmetical statements, that I am rather inclined to regard that science as the instrument of national calamity. View quote
Jean-Baptiste Say
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. View quote
James Allen
I think I should be in a [Disney animated] film called ‘Space Shrews'. Where I go to space. With a load of shrews. And nothing really happens. We just get out and have a lolly and then come back. But it'll be a musical [...] the ship will be built out of my own hair. View quote
Noel Fielding
Not only was Thebes built by the music of an Orpheus; but without the music of some inspired Orpheus was no city ever built, no work that man glories in ever done. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague. View quote
Freeman Dyson
...nothing in Nature stands still; everything strives and moves forward. If we could only view the first stages of creation, how the kingdoms of nature were built one upon the other, a progression of forward-striving forces would reveal itself in all evolution. (Johann Gottfried Herder)
Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to. View quote
Mumia Abu-Jamal
We were emerging from the period of war, of uniforms, of women-soldiers built like boxers. I drew women-flowers, soft shoulders, fine waists like liana and wide skirts like corolla. View quote
Christian Dior
Character, courage, industry and perseverance are the four pillars on which the whole edifice of human life can be built and failure is a word unknown to me. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
As for America and the rest of European world, I want to live in a nation that reflects my traditions and values, and I do not want my people to become a minority in the nations my own forefathers built. Interestingly, that is same goal that most Israelis and most Jews who support Israel endorse for the Jewish state. View quote
David Duke
A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are built for. View quote
John Augustus Shedd
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary. View quote
John Desmond Bernal
Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down. View quote
Robert Frost
What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day. View quote
Rob Ford
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system. View quote
John von Neumann
The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder. (Alan Shepard)
Careers don't seem to be built up in the same way as they were in the 80s. View quote
Kim Wilde
It is almost irresistible for humans to believe that we have some special relation to the universe, that human life is not just a more-or-less farcical outcome of a chain of accidents reaching back to the first three minutes, but that we were somehow built in from the beginning. ... It is very hard to realise that this is all just a tiny part of an overwhelmingly hostile universe. It is even harder to realise that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it also seems pointless. View quote
Steven Weinberg
The differences between the two sexes is one of the important conditions upon which we have built the many varieties of human culture that give human beings dignity and stature. View quote
Margaret Mead
Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. [...] A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould