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JULIAN SORRELL HUXLEY Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
JULIAN S. HUXLEY Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience
JULIAN SORRELL HUXLEY It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yiel...
MUHAMMAD IQBAL JULIAN HUXLEY’S “EUGENICS MANIFESTO”:
“Eugenics Manifesto” was the name given to an a...
A.E. SAMAAN All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we wor...
FELIX FRANKFURTER Words are mere tools of the mind
JOSHUA WRIGHT Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday'...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you're not in the vocabulary flow of that parti...
HELEN VENDLER Words are sometimes sensitive instruments of precision with which delicate operations may be perform...
HELEN MERELL LYND The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
SAINT AUGUSTINE The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
FREDERICK (CARL) FRIESEKE Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather t...
JAMES HOUSTON Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Words are like birds in a cage, once released, they fly
SOTONYE ANGA Words are the tools we use to express our reality.
STEVE MARABOLI Follow a well beaten path or carve out your own -either way, the experience will be uniquely yours -...
RICKBISCHOFF All of them are still trying to carve out unique positioning, which is always difficult in a market ...
GREG PAULL My main reason for scepticism about the Huxley/Sagan theory is that the human brain is demonstrably ...
RICHARD DAWKINS Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.
JULIAN S. HUXLEY Words were a woman's tools.
HELEN FISHER I don?t think you should carve out certain types of vessels on public waters. It?s not right. We are...
BARNETT LAWLEY God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spi...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Grace- "You are naked."......"You are so naked"
Julian - "I know"
Grace - "You are ...
SHERRILYN KENYON It has been my experience that what perplexes and frustrates many people are the higher-level concep...
DAN CLARK Words without experience are meaningless.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conv...
ALAN W. WATTS we must speak carefully so that we and our listeners do not get stuck in words or concepts. It is ou...
THICH NHAT HANH ...definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concep...
ERNST MAYR Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words ar...
RENE DAUMAL Ballots are automatically mailed out if you're registered to vote.
CONNIE HIGGINS A learning experience. When they go out into the world, they'll understand the concepts, what it tak...
JOE RICE In the real world, words don't automatically translate into deeds.
KATHLEEN TROIA MCFARLAND What do you want, MacGuffin, a duel?”
“No.” Julian held out both hands, one palm flat, th...
ABIGAIL ROUX It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make e...
WILLIAM MORRIS A man is worked upon by what he works on. He may carve out his circumstances, but his circumstances ...
FREDERICK DOUGLASS Creativity and insight almost always involve an experience of acute pattern recognition: the eureka ...
JASON SILVA There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no o...
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY There are intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no...
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY There are. intangible realities which float near us, formless and without words; realities which no ...
NATALIE CLIFFORD BARNEY Someone needs to examine popular Web sites to figure out which are untrustworthy. Then users' comput...
BEN EDELMAN How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holie...
MING-DAO DENG There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of...
JOSHUA FOER Our thinking will automatically improve when we remember the words of Paul: 'know ye not that ye are...
THOMAS S. MONSON Sometimes the most ruthless heart speaks the most truth
CASSANDRA CLARE Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary dete...
PHILIP ZALESKI Words like freedom, justice, democracy are not common concepts; on the contrary, they are rare. Peop...
JAMES BALDWIN The ‘doctrines’ we get out of the true myth are of course less true: they are translations into ...
C.S. LEWIS If you are thrown out of drug court, you are automatically facing 2 1/3 to 4 years in state prison.
CARL BECKER Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that y...
MARCEL DUCHAMP Since 'concepts' are closely bound up with language, concept art is a kind of art of which t...
HENRY FLYNT The challenge for us is that we are running out of tools. When we have the big flood here, we are ru...
BRAYTON WILLIS This universe can very well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one's mot...
TAHAR BEN JELLOUN Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHER ...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in r...
JULIAN HUXLEY Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler, but the last fading smile of a cosmic Chesh...
JULIAN HUXLEY I'm not your biggest crash-up merchant at outside centre, so Lloyd balances out the backline.
JULIAN HUXLEY It's a bit sore and swollen but it's OK. I'll be fine to play on Saturday.
JULIAN HUXLEY If Lloyd's boot is on song it will get the Breakers out of the tight corners and we all know he can ...
JULIAN HUXLEY Big games are invariably fairly tight and physical and the Breakers are well equipped.
JULIAN HUXLEY With all the nerves of a grand final, it's a stick to basics game and a guy like (hooker) Tai McIsaa...
JULIAN HUXLEY That's part of what I worried about last season, that maybe the guys outside me didn't trust in my a...
JULIAN HUXLEY We'll take that. You don't get anywhere without some resolve and guts.
JULIAN HUXLEY But if God and immortality be repudiated, what is left? That is the question usually thrown at the a...
JULIAN HUXLEY Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshi...
JULIAN HUXLEY I make sure I carve out time to be with my daughter.
GEORGINA CHAPMAN When I carve out time to game, it's because I rationalize that I 'deserve it,' so I reli...
FELICIA DAY There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting ...
FREDERIKA BREMER There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting ...
FREDERIKA BREMER Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Tools & Tool Boxes Are Truly Critical Success Factors In Today’s Business World. What Tools Do you...
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Whether you agree with Julian Assange or what he's doing, there's no question of the impact ...
CAMERON WINKLEVOSS I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.
BILL MONROE We are not shut away into individual cages from which we can reach out only with inadequate words.
JOHN WYNDHAM You can't carve up the world. It's not a pie.
PATTI SMITH Many early-stage entrepreneurs make one simple mistake: Describing this 'big picture' in vag...
SUNIL NAGARAJ There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting ...
FREDERIKA BREMER Excuses are the tools with which persons with no purpose in view build for themselves great monument...
STEVEN GRAYHM These are all of the tools that someone would need to basically enable a purely Web-based computer e...
CHARLES KING People talk about you like you're Jesus, but you're not. You only pull out the miracles to save your...
KRISTA RITCHIE What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagin...
SHIGERU MIYAMOTO When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ...
MONTSERRAT CABALLE When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ...
MONSERRAT CABALLé When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ...
MONSERRAT CABALLé Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = br...
DEYTH BANGER All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication.
DEYTH BANGER The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I be...
JIANG ZEMIN Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
LEARNED HAND Tessa touched her hand to his cheek. “You’re strong, brave, protective -”

“So is...
PAMELA CLARE She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet...
STEPHANIE GARBER What does it feel like to be infected?"
"I-- I can't describe it." I force the words out. Can't...
LAUREN OLIVER Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other.
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"But God doesn't chan...
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ALDOUS HUXLEY All right then," said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
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ALDOUS HUXLEY People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Experience teaches only the teachable.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY The only completely consistent people are the dead.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given hi...
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THOMAS HUXLEY Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
THOMAS HUXLEY To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.
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ALDOUS HUXLEY There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.
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THOMAS HUXLEY If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
THOMAS HUXLEY There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need...
THOMAS HUXLEY Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly...
THOMAS HUXLEY I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is r...
THOMAS HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS HUXLEY The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification.
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS HUXLEY Make up your mind to act decidedly and take the consequences. No good is ever done in this world by ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.
THOMAS HUXLEY The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.
THOMAS HUXLEY The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority.
THOMAS HUXLEY Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
THOMAS HUXLEY The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to ...
THOMAS HUXLEY Patience and tenacity are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.
THOMAS HUXLEY