Proceed Quotes

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater. (Epictetus)
A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all. View quote
Georges Bernanos
He, who begins by loving Christianity better than Truth, will proceed by loving his own Sect or Church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. View quote
William Hazlitt
Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
We humans are an extremely important manifestation of the replication bomb, because it is through us - through our brains, our symbolic culture and our technology - that the explosion may proceed to the next stage and reverberate through deep space. View quote
Richard Dawkins
I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed. View quote
Max Born
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst. View quote
Dale Carnegie
The premises being thus settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study? View quote
Jane Austen
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. (Francis Bacon)
A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to slaughter. View quote
Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus
I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds. View quote
Michael Faraday
If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee to examine straw after straw until he found the object of his search. ... I was a sorry witness of such doings, knowing that a little theory and calculation would have saved him ninety per cent of his labor. View quote
Nikola Tesla
This most beautiful system The Universe could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. View quote
Isaac Newton
In coming closer to nature, man shows himself superior to it. As a mere part of nature, man's existence would be a series of isolated phenomena. All life would proceed from and depend on contact with the outside world. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles. View quote
Henry Mayhew
And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination. View quote
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
Since I was doing all of it myself, I had to decide where I wanted to go with the songs, how to proceed with the chords, if the sound was alright, and all that detail on my own. View quote
Utada Hikaru
I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. View quote
Charles Darwin
Nature does not proceed by leaps. (Carl Linnaeus)
To preserve the freedom of the human mind then and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
THERE is scarcely any inquiry more curious, or, from its importance, more worthy of attention, than that which traces the causes which practically check the progress of wealth in different countries, and stop it, or make it proceed very slowly, while the power of production remains comparatively undiminished, or at least would furnish the means of a great and abundant increase of produce and population. View quote
Thomas Malthus
When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen's constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters in his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all. View quote
William O. Douglas
Either all things proceed from one intelligent source and come together as in one body, and the part ought not to find fault with what is done for the benefit of the whole; or there are only atoms, and nothing else than a mixture and dispersion. Why, then, art thou disturbed? Say to this ruling faculty, Art thou dead, art thou corrupted, art thou playing the hypocrite, art thou become a beast, dost thou herd and feed with the rest? View quote
Marcus Aurelius