Quotes
Quotes about Order
Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
The most important thing in a relationship between a man and a woman is that one of them must be good at taking orders.
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Minds are like parachutes-- they only function when open. Thomas Dewar "Doublethink" means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. â¢George Orwell The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. â¢Henri L. Bergson Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out . . . People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts. â¢Eleanor H. Porter The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. â¢Henry Courtney A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. â¢Ralph Waldo Emerson Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. â¢Leonardo Da Vinci A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye. â¢Carolyn Wells Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character. â¢S. Dubay A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. â¢Winston Churchill The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water. â¢Sigmund Freud A feeble body weakens the mind. â¢Jean Jacques Rousseau Ninety-nine percent of who you are is invisible and untouchable. â¢Buckminster Fuller A man's mind will very gradually refuse to make itself up until it is driven and compelled by emergency. â¢Anthony Trollope We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe. â¢Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. â¢Jean de LaBruyere Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive. â¢Napoleon Hill A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan. â¢Martin Luther King, Jr. A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates, as a deserted mansion tempts wandering outcasts to enter and take up their abode in its desolate apartments. â¢Nicholas Hilliard A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. â¢Eugene Ionesco Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. This power becomes available to you just as you can change your beliefs. â¢Maxwell Maltz Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set. â¢Source Unknown The mind is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not discreetly how to use it. â¢Michel de Montaigne If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. â¢Lyall Watson Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace. â¢Elbert Hubbard The mind has exactly the same power as the hands: not merely to grasp the world, but to change it. â¢Colin Wilson Mind unemployed is mind unenjoyed.
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. - The Oracle.
Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
And sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
Christ didn't waste his time trying to change the social order. Christ spent all his time fighting sin. Therefore it behooves the witnesses of Christ to say that we do not have to abolish capitalism and establish socialism or communism, that sin can flourish under those systems as well. Christianity is not opposed to any social order, but to sin.
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics⦠never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
There is no shame in taking orders from those who themselves have learned to obey.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
It is not necessary to hope in order to understand, nor to succeed in order to persevere.
Let all things be done decently and in order.
In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came unto him, and said unto him. Thus saith the Lord, Set thine house in order: for thou shalt die, and not live.
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
For the world was built in order Around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.
Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.
