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  • No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. -- Pythagoras
  • From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. -- Tom Stoppard
  • Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. -- James A. Garfield
  • Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one. -- Felix Frankfurter
  • Much can often be learned by the repetition under different conditions, even if the desired result is not obtained. -- Archer John Porter Martin
  • For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination. -- Ramana Maharshi
  • Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. -- Jean Cocteau
  • Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. -- Leo Tolstoy
  • The most efficient way to live reasonably is every morning to make a plan of one's day and every night to examine the results obtained. -- Alexis Carrel
  • There is nothing worth having that can be obtained by nuclear war - nothing material or ideological - no tradition that it can defend. It is utterly self-defeating. -- George Wald
  • The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions. -- Alan Dershowitz
  • Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained. -- James Loeb
  • Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience. -- Leland Ryken
  • I realized how important it was to know something about aviation, and it was something I was interested in, so I followed my brother's footsteps and obtained my pilot's license. -- Ellen Ochoa
  • Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. -- Alfred North Whitehead
  • Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it. -- Edmund Husserl
  • The United States form a young republic, a confederacy which ought ever to be cemented by a union of interests and affection, under the influence of those principles which obtained their independence. -- Mercy Otis Warren
  • People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. -- Jerome K. Jerome
  • Of those beings who live in ignorance, shut up and confined, as it were, in an egg, I have first broken the eggshell of ignorance and alone in the universe obtained the most exalted, universal Buddhahood. -- Buddha
  • In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort. -- W.S. Gilbert
  • A clear cold morning with high wind: we caught in a trap a large gray wolf, and last night obtained in the same way a fox who had for some time infested the neighbourhood of the fort. -- Meriwether Lewis
  • He that desireth to acquire any art or science seeketh first those means by which that art or science is obtained. If we ought to do so in things natural and earthly, how much more then in spiritual? -- Robert Barclay
  • Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned. -- John Moody
  • The gift of the Holy Ghost, which is the right to receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion, is obtained only upon condition of faith in Christ, repentance, baptism by immersion, and the laying on of hands by authorized servants endowed with the Melchizedek Priesthood. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case. -- Floyd Abrams
  • Peace is obtained by war. -- Cornelius Nepos
  • no knowledge obtained without risk -- Stephen King
  • The greatest pleasure is obtained by improving. -- Ben Hogan
  • Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant. -- Richard Morris
  • Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God. -- Wallace D. Wattles
  • Through patience and certainty, leadership in the religion is obtained. -- Ibn Taymiyyah
  • Perfect reusable components are not obtained at the first shot. -- Bertrand Meyer
  • Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. -- Peter Drucker
  • Possible reality [is obtained] by slightly bending physical and chemical laws. -- Marcel Duchamp
  • I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work. -- Albert Einstein
  • Commerce is the agency by which the power of choice is obtained. -- John Ruskin
  • Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men. -- Sun Tzu
  • An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all. -- Socrates
  • The world is ruled by power and power is obtained by money. -- Tadeusz Borowski
  • Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance. -- Philip Massinger
  • The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. -- Samuel Richardson
  • Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action -- Jonathan Edwards
  • Reality is obtained not by imitation, but by producing the sense of nature. -- Robert Henri
  • [A]ny desired additional nicotine 'kick' could be easily obtained through pH regulation. -- R. J. Reynolds
  • Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. -- Samuel Johnson
  • The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts -- Tom Stoppard
  • From principles is derived probability but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts -- Tom Stoppard
  • The greatest comforts and lasting peace are obtained, when one eradicates selfishness from within. -- Guru Gobind Singh
  • We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling. -- Walter Van Tilburg Clark
  • It is hard to keep that which has not been obtained through personal development. -- Jim Rohn
  • adherent, n. A follower who has not yet obtained all that he expects to get. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • Healing is not always obtained by saying a prayer. It is obtained by obeying God -- John G. Lake
  • Consular cards are easily obtained with no proof of true identity and are easily forged. -- Elton Gallegly
  • I was not an especially diligent student but nevertheless obtained a reasonable education in physics. -- Robert Coleman Richardson
  • Peace and happiness are what you covet, but these are only to be obtained by labor. -- Thomas a Kempis
  • Every experiment destroys some of the knowledge of the system which was obtained by previous experiments. -- Werner Heisenberg
  • A draw can be obtained not only by repeating moves, but also by one weak move. -- Savielly Tartakower
  • A very large part of space-time must be investigated, if reliable results are to be obtained. -- Alan Turing
  • Natural wealth is limited and easily obtained; the wealth defined by vain fancies is always beyond reach. -- Epicurus
  • Jesus Christ is both the only price and sacrifice by which eternal redemption is obtained for believers. -- Jonathan Edwards
  • Results are often obtained by impetuosity and daring which could never have been obtained by ordinary methods. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
  • Listening well and answering well is one of the greatest perfections that can be obtained in conversation. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • [I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes. -- Adam Johnson
  • Once the tools for building public opinion are obtained, everything that you asked for can be done. -- Osama bin Laden
  • The exchange-value of money is the anticipated use-value of the things that can be obtained with it. -- Ludwig von Mises
  • Therefore, having obtained the opportunity from these sources, I too began to consider the mobility of the earth. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
  • There is absolutely no nutrient, no protein, no vitamin, no mineral that can't be obtained from plant-based foods. -- Michael Klaper
  • How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? -- Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God. -- William Whewell
  • Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading. -- J. C. Ryle
  • If one's sense of self is obtained through the eyes of another it is always subject to being lost. -- Brenda Shoshanna
  • The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion. -- Winston Churchill
  • Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • Independence can only be obtained and secured by a nation that has its spirit raging with determination: independence or death! -- Sukarno
  • Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation. -- Sun Tzu
  • Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience. -- Trofim Lysenko
  • A significant idea of organization cannot be obtained in a world in which everything is necessary and nothing is contingent -- Norbert Wiener
  • Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they are obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. -- Confucius
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  • Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. -- Morris Raphael Cohen
  • Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. -- Arthur Cayley
  • 90 percent of the time the terms are misused or unnecessary. Not every image obtained from a computer is a screen shot. -- Bill Walsh
  • Not by vows nor by womanish prayers is the help of the gods obtained; success comes through vigilance, energy, wise counsel. -- Sallust
  • The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. Dishonest wealth does not last. -- Israelmore Ayivor
  • Best, I'd advise, to give up all animal products obtained by cruel methods. There are some fine companies nowadays offering leather substitutes. -- Matthew Scully
  • The humility that cringes in order that reproof may be escaped or favor obtained is as unchristian as it is profoundly immoral. -- Dallas Willard
  • The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold -- Leo Tolstoy
  • Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold -- Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
  • Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained. -- C. S. Lewis
  • For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid. -- David Ricardo
  • He whom common, gross, or stale objects allure, and when obtained, content, is a vulgar being, incapable of greatness in thought or action. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors. -- Martin Delany
  • The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars. -- Patanjali
  • Within six months of starting my Ph.D. work in 1956, I had already obtained feeding tadpoles derived from transplanted nuclei of embryonic cells. -- John Gurdon
  • The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus and a chair that's not obtained from Craigslist that keeps poking into his back. -- Bruce Lee
  • I believe that because I had obtained a wife who was made up of wife-signs (beauty, charm, softness, perfume, cookery) I had found love. -- Donald Barthelme
  • Progress is obtained only by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems. When you solve problems, all you do is guarantee a return to normalcy. -- Peter Drucker
  • True peace of mind can be obtained only when one is personally awakened to the stark-naked fact that every effort is ultimately in vain. -- Zenkei Shibayama
  • A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin -- Charles Darwin
  • Statistics is the branch of scientific method which deals with the data obtained by counting or measuring the properties of populations of natural phenomena. -- Maurice Kendall
  • The whole economy of this lower world proves that it is by labor and perseverance only that good is obtained and evil is avoided. -- Patrick Henry
  • Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others. -- Joseph Butler
  • Knowledge about the process being modeled starts fairly low, then increases as understanding is obtained and tapers off to a high value at the end. -- Harold Chestnut
  • I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession. -- Samuel Johnson
  • Things could not have been brought into being by God in any manner or in any order different from that which has in fact obtained. -- Baruch Spinoza
  • Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section. -- Walter Rudolf Hess
  • If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. -- Mark Twain
  • Certain brands of guilt can be inculcated in a secular way but other brands of guilt can only be obtained with reference to the metaphysical. -- Sarah Ruhl
  • If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none. -- Thomas Jefferson
  • Gratitude is the beginning of wisdom. Stated differently, true wisdom cannot be obtained unless it is built on a foundation of true humility and gratitude. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
  • Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich! -- Russell Conwell
  • Knowledge is not obtained through being absorbed in a book, it comes when you brush aside fantasies and sensuality, switching from the unreal to the real. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
  • Since mechanically obtained randomness contains all kinds of possible permutations, including the most regular ones, it cannot be relied upon always to exhibit a pervasive irregularity. -- Rudolf Arnheim
  • The highest culture is not obtained from the teacher when at school or college, so much as by our ever diligent self-education when we become men. -- Samuel Smiles
  • We can do without any article of luxury we have never had; but when once obtained, it is not in human natur' to surrender it voluntarily. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
  • Love is a great poet, its resources are inexhaustible, but if the end it has in view is not obtained, it feels weary and remains silent. -- Giacomo Casanova
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