Rowaida Quotes & Sayings

Those who have handled sciences have been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy; for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay it up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and digested. — Francis Bacon

If you look at, you know, the limitations of creating new products, you're only limited by the technology that you have to work with. — Homaro Cantu

If governments do not ensure that, the peoples through their own efforts will ensure these changes, what we call communitarian socialism. — Evo Morales

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead. — Peter Thiel

Seek to be an oasis of caring and concern as you live your life. — Dalai Lama XIV

The successful salesperson cares first for the customer, second for the products. — Philip Kotler

Experiences, much more than instruction, are a seeing with the inner eye - finding a channel to our essential inner life, a door to our deepest understanding wherein we have the capacity for universal response. — Lawren Harris

The bloom shriveled. No matter. Pride was dangerous, — Max Gladstone

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade. — Walter Scott

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins ... — Clement Greenberg

Most of us cannot afford to store a year's supply of luxury items, but find it more practical to store staples that might keep us from starving in case of emergency. — James E. Faust

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. — Augustus Hare