Province Quotes

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also. (Marcus Aurelius)
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science. View quote
Carl Friedrich Gauss
While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. View quote
Dorothea Lange
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. View quote
Voltaire
Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province of the public sector. View quote
David Rockefeller
Less than fifteen cents to the province and more than twenty-five cents to Ottawa, this is far from being excessive! View quote
Maurice Duplessis
If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province. View quote
George Sarton
Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony...In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism. View quote
Oriana Fallaci
Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem. View quote
Edgar Allan Poe
No man must encroach upon my province nor I upon his. He may advise me, moderately and without perniciousness, but he must not expect to dictate to me. He may censure me freely and without reserve but he should remember that I am to act by my deliberation and not his. He may exercise a republican boldness in judging, but he must not be peremptory and imperious in prescribing. Force may never be resorted to but, in the most extraordinary and imperious emergency. View quote
William Godwin
After a while the press of business in the province put an end to our philosophizing, and I returned with increased determination to my plans to fly to the Moon. (Cyrano de Bergerac)
It is the peculiar province of the legislature to prescribe general rules for the government of society; the application of those rules to individuals in society would seem to be the duty of other departments. View quote
John Marshall
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice. View quote
Ihara Saikaku
It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Neither Britain, a province fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. View quote
Jerome
Imagine that leader of all the enemy, in that great plain of Babylon, sitting on a sort of throne of smoking flame, a horrible and terrifying sight. Watch him calling together countless devils, to despatch them into different cities till the whole world is covered, forgetting no province or locality, no class or single individual. View quote
Ignatius of Loyola
I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
There are, of course, a number of epistemological questions, some of which lie more in the province of the philosopher than they do the economist or the social scientist. The one with which I am particularly concerned here is that of the role of knowledge in social systems, both as a product of the past and as a determinant of the future. View quote
Kenneth Boulding
I was a Nazi and I remain one...The Germany of today is no longer a great nation, it has become a province of Europe. View quote
Joachim Peiper
Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology. View quote
Karl Popper
The earliest known writing probably emerged in southern Mesopotamia around 5,000 years ago, but for most of recorded history, reading and writing remained among the most elite human activities: the province of monarchs, priests and nobles who reserved for themselves the privilege of lasting words. (Tom Chatfield)
I am merely a seeker after knowledge, taking the world for my province, for it seems all knowledge is interrelated, and each science is dependent to some extent on the others. View quote
Louis L'Amour
We, in our Province, are beginning to realize and appreciate that our slowness in keeping up with our North American neighbours may well have been a blessing in disguise. View quote
Alex Campbell
No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial. View quote
Agnes Smedley
The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded. View quote
Catherine Helen Spence