Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Gramsci

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In this interregnum there arises a great diversity of morbid symptoms.

Alfred North Whitehead

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

Michel Foucault

Relations of power "are indissociable from a discourse of truth, and they can neither be established nor function unless a true discourse is produced, accumulated, put into circulation, and set to work. Power cannot be exercised unless a certain economy of discourses of truth functions in, on the basis of, and thanks to, that power."

Michel Foucault

'Truth' is to be understood as a system of ordered procedures for the production, regulation, distribution, circulation and operation of statements. 'Truth' is linked in a circular relation with systems of power which produce and sustain it, and to effects of power which it induces and which extend it. A 'regime' of truth.

Helen Keller

Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge - broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low.

Veronica Roth

Knowledge is power. Power to do evil...or power to do good. Power itself is not evil. So knowledge itself is not evil.

Tom Clancy

Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

Virchand Gandhi

According to Jains the soul in pure form has infiniteness in terms of its knowledge and power. These faculties are obstructed for its exhibition due to Karmic bondage. As the soul progresses in its morality and spirituality it gets certain powers which may look miraculous.

Chris Robinson

I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.

C. S. Lewis

We don't have a soul. We are a soul. We happen to have a body.

Antoine Rivarol

Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.

Petrarch

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Petrarch

Continued work and application form my soul's nourishment. So soon as I commenced to rest and relax I should cease to live.

William Shakespeare

[S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief.

William Shakespeare

If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.

Maurice Maeterlinck

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell

Change is one thing, progress is another.

Bertrand Russell

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

Bertrand Russell

The free intellect is the chief engine of human progress.

Mark Mann

We'll progress him over the weekend in regards to his running, ... and just take it day by day and see how he feels.

Peter Brown

Time is running short for her to show progress.

Bud Selig

We've made some progress on a lot of issues. But progress in the end is when you have a deal.

John Singlaub

We've made progress with our over-the-counter application process. But we are still not there yet.

Jeff Heath

We've made progress. We're taking it step by step.

Ted Waitt

We've made a lot of progress in 2001 and now it's time to grow,