Fundamentals famous quotes
05-20-2025
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...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.
-- A.C. Grayling -
We are dealing with a fundamental characteristic, inherent in human nature, a potentiality given to all or most human beings at birth, which most often is lost or buried or inhibited as the person gets enculturated.
-- Abraham Maslow -
Of course, relative citation frequencies are no measure of relative importance. Who has not aspired to write a paper so fundamental that very soon it is known to everyone and cited by no one?
-- Abraham Pais -
"He who wants to protect everything, protects nothing," is one of the fundamental rules of defense.
-- Adolf Galland -
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag's fundamental nature.
-- Adrian Cronauer -
The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
-- Alan Keyes -
Christians belong in American politics because there is not and cannot be a fundamental separation between our moral vocation and our citizenship.
-- Alan Keyes -
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
-- Alan Lightman -
L'absurde est la notion essentielle et la premie' re ve? rite? . The absurd is the fundamental idea and the first truth.
-- Albert Camus -
Access to information and freedom of access to it may seem like a fundamental right but there are many people who think, rightly or wrongly, it is for your own good that it is hidden.
-- Alberto Gonzales -
Periods of rapid and fundamental change were never favourable for literature. Significant works, have nearly always and everywhere been created in periods of stability, be it good or bad.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.
-- Alexis Herman -
It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment
-- Alfred Binet -
The present non-aristotelian system is based on fundamental negative premises; namely, the complete denial of 'identity.'
-- Alfred Korzybski -
The issue of human rights is one of the most fundamental human issues and also one of the most sensitive and controversial.
-- Ali Khamenei -
There's something fundamental you have to understand about yourself before you can change your life for good.
-- Ali Vincent -
Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning is more fundamental.
-- Alison Gopnik -
Serious poetry deals with the fundamental conflicts that cannot be logically resolved: we can state the conflicts rationally, but reason does not relieve us of them.
-- Allen Tate -
Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
-- Ambrose -
Private property is a very fundamental and very long-term institution.
-- Anatoly Chubais -
Change is fundamental in story. If things go static, stories die.
-- Andrew Stanton -
A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done.
-- Andy Grove -
Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right.
-- Anthony Horowitz -
What the poet is searching for is not the fundamental I but the deep you.
-- Antonio Machado -
There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
-- Antonio Tabucchi -
The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.
-- Ariel Durant -
Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.
-- Arlen Specter -
Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference we should each be treated with appropriate respect.
-- Arthur C. Clarke -
No phenomenon can be isolated, but has repercussions through every aspect of our lives. We are learning that we are a fundamental part of nature's ecosystems.
-- Arthur Erickson -
Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.
-- Ashley Montagu -
The family is the single most important institution in Afghan culture. It is described in the countrys constitution as the fundamental pillar of society.
-- Asne Seierstad -
The right to choose to live or to die is the most fundamental right there is; conversely, the duty to give others that opportunity to the best of our ability is the most fundamental duty there is.
-- Aubrey de Grey -
They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families.
-- Barack Obama -
I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
-- Baz Luhrmann -
The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.
-- Beaumont Newhall -
Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!
-- Ben Feldman -
To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.
-- Ben Shahn -
Certainly if the fundamental problem of society is that demands are infinite and resources are always limited, politics, not economics is the master science.
-- Bernard Crick -
The aspects of patriotism that hush dissent, encourage going along, and sanction comfortable distancing and compliance with what is indecent and unacceptable... those aspects are too fundamental to ignore or gloss over.
-- Bernardine Dohrn -
Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.
-- Bernd Heinrich -
The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.
-- Bernie Siegel -
Fundamental happiness depends more than anything else upon what may be called a friendly interest in persons and things.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Africa is less a wilderness than a repository of primary and fundamental values, and less a barbaric land than an unfamiliar voice
-- Beryl Markham -
The fundamental thing about sketching is that it isabout asking not telling
-- Bill Buxton -
The fundamental aspect of video is not the image, even though you can stand in amazement at what can be done electronically, how images can be manipulated and the really extraordinary creative possibilities. For me the essential basis of video is the movement - something that exists at the moment and changes in the next moment.
-- Bill Viola -
Reverence, human of the Earth, is the fundamental element of all existence, so it is therefore also the fundamental element of love itself, which is built on this all-embracing reverence. And since this is so in truth, it is also an impossible thing that love, once awakened and built up in truthfulness, can ever weaken again and become cold, or could transform into hate or be annihilated.
-- Billy Meier -
The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer
-- Bjarne Stroustrup -
We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'
-- Bjorn Lomborg -
I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.
-- Bob Brown -
The freedom to convert is fundamental to freedom of religion.
-- Bob Inglis -
A fundamental duty of government is to protect its people.
-- Brad Henry -
For most affairs, this eventually becomes the most fundamental of questions, the only one that matters: Do we love each other more than the lives we already have? It is the question that hovers in the background of every secret phone call, flavors every tryst with the head of possibilities of apocalypse and renewal; and it is the answer to that question, or the lack thereof, that so often dooms an affair to failure.
-- Brady Udall -
Business is just about enabling human beings, nothing more, nothing less. Businesses need to recognize this fundamental fact.
-- Bruce Dickinson -
Human beings are not meant to live alone. There is a fundamental biological imperative that propels you and every organism on this planet to be in a community, to be in relationship with other organisms.
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
The fundamental idea of design is to make the world a better place.
-- Bruce Mau -
The fundamental driver in computer security, in all of the computer industry, is economics. That requires a lot of re-education for us security geeks.
-- Bruce Schneier -
The homosexual agenda represents a clear and present danger to virtually every fundamental right given to us by our Creator and enshrined for us in our Constitution.
-- Bryan Fischer -
Not all horses are going to be show jumpers, not all horses are going to be dressage horses. So you have to sort of find where the horse physically fits into what might suit him, but all horses can be comfortable and all horses can have good, solid fundamentals.
-- Buck Brannaman -
Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
-- Carl David Anderson -
Reason is incompetent to answer any fundamental question about God, or morality, or the meaning of life.
-- Carl L. Becker -
My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.
-- Carl Sagan -
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.
-- Carl Sagan -
The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge; it has no in the endeavor of science. We do not know in advance who will discover fundamental insights.
-- Carl Sagan -
The very idea that there is some kind of conflict between science and religion is completely mistaken. Science is a method for investigating experience... Religion is the fundamental, necessary internalization of our system of more permanent values.
-- Carroll Quigley -
Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
-- Cesare Pavese -
Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.
-- Charles A. Reich -
There is no fundamental difference between humans and the higher mammalsin their mental faculties
-- Charles Darwin -
Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey.
-- Charles Edison -
More than a mere alternative strategy, regenerative agriculture represents a fundamental shift in our culture’s relationship to nature.
-- Charles Eisenstein -
The simplest way to assure sales is to keep changing the product the market for new things is indefinitely elastic. One of the fundamental purposes of advertising, styling, and research is to foster a healthy dissatisfaction.
-- Charles Kettering -
That our being should consist of two fundamental elements [physical and psychical] offers I suppose no greater inherent improbability than that it should rest on one only.
-- Charles Scott Sherrington -
The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out.
-- Charlie Pierce -
But you can't extend, or go beyond any point musically, without the basic fundamentals.
-- Chico Hamilton -
Socialism and SF are the two most fundamental influences in my life.
-- China Mieville -
For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.
-- Chris Cannon -
Rebellion is not going to go away...What has been unleashed, I think, can't be stopped...The importance of continuing acts of resistance is that it keeps this narrative alive...We speak a fundamental truth about this system that terrifies them.
-- Chris Hedges -
Simplicity, good taste and grooming are the three fundamentals of good dressing and these do not cost money.
-- Christian Dior -
Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.
-- Christopher Dodd -
I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.
-- Clive James -
The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.
-- Dalai Lama -
Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.
-- Damon Lindelof -
The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
-- Damon Lindelof -
There is perhaps no psychological skill more fundamental than resisting impulse.
-- Daniel Goleman -
Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.
-- Daniel J. Siegel -
I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.
-- David Antin -
Things are still in early stages, but one can imagine that as we build up and systematize our theories of these associations, and try to boil them down to their core, the result might point us toward the sort of fundamental principles I advocate.
-- David Chalmers -
Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.
-- David Elkind -
I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox
-- David Foreman -
Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
-- David Markson -
Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.
-- David McCampbell -
Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent working hard and contributing to the greatness of our nation, every American should have a secure retirement.
-- Debbie Stabenow -
Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.
-- Deborah Harkness -
A fundamental contradiction does not exist between socialism and a market economy.
-- Deng Xiaoping -
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
-- Desmond Morris -
The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.
-- Desmond Tutu -
Banning guns addresses a fundamental right of all Americans to feel safe.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
Playing without the fundamentals is like eating without a knife and fork. You make a mess.
-- Dick Williams -
The threat to free television. The reason television is free is because it is a life support system for commercials. That fundamental aspect is about to change.
-- Dick Wolf
