Quotes About Subjects

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries.

Before about 1800, only two important attempts were made to establish income taxes—one in Florence during the fifteenth century, and the other in France during the eighteenth. Generally speaking, both represented efforts by grasping rulers to mulct their subjects.

There is no such thing as educational value in the abstract. The notion that some subjects and methods and that acquaintance with certain facts and truths possess educational value in and of themselves is the reason why traditional education reduced the material of education so largely to a diet of predigested materials.

The policy of the emperors and the senate, as far as it concerned religion, was happily seconded by the reflections of the enlightened, and by the habits of the superstitious, part of their subjects. The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. And thus toleration produced not only mutual indulgence, but even religious concord.

A bachelor-life carries the burden of study and observes all subjects; thereupon, marital-life embraces that to qualify and prove mutual life in love and courteous grade.

Forget the privacy; we all are the spy and spying on each other in every way on every subject.

Nature and character speak itself A flower rose, or whatever else as that; indeed, it has its authenticity and worth; however, it depends on the representation, as honeybees provide honey; whereas, the houseflies represent the bacterial nature. As that conception and insight, one executes identical objects and subjects, as the worst shape or the best way as its natural character.

One cannot search a word, Evilize in English dictionaries since that's a new one, which one may use as; Evil only evils and Evilizes all the subjects and objects.

The brain is a parliament of thoughts since that stay active as an all-time activity to form the system of life in all subjects and dimensions.

The human holds itself limited knowledge within the knowledge of the universe, gifted by the Divine blessings; thus, the human has not the capability to measure all subjects in its large-scale dimensions on this planet. As a fact, human falls under natural restrictions and limits; whereas, the limitation cannot generate and reach the measure of all things.

As for me, it's hard to say in what tangle of feelings I found myself. I always defended Lila, and I liked doing so, I liked to hear myself speak with the authority of one who is studying difficult subjects.

Love is the master of our lives, And, e'en though happy subjects we, We're governed by his scepter strong Through time and through eternity.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

Since the 1970s, we have witnessed the forces of market fundamentalism strip education of its public values, critical content, and civic responsibilities as part of its broader goal of creating new subjects wedded to consumerism, risk-free relationships, and the destruction of the social state.

The humanities have been forced to disguise, both from themselves and their students, why their subjects really matter, for the sake of attracting money and prestige in a world obsessed by the achievements of science.

It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.

a society of equal laws, governed by equality of status and of speech, and of rulers who respect the liberty of their subjects above all else.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

I hope members with younger children will enjoy sharing my first read-aloud chapter book with them. It's about a little princess who longs to get to know her subjects so that she can be a good Queen one day. I loved writing it!

There were no captions. Once the subjects' identities must have seemed so obvious; it hadn't occurred to the album's creator that the time would come when no one alive remembered them.

At the same time rulers were exhorted to protect and promote the common good of society and the well-being of all of their subjects.

As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, whether food or wine or history or the life span of veterinarians. I was completely unschooled in any of these things.

Methinks Sir Robert should have carried his Monarchical Power one step higher and satisfied the World, that Princes might eat their Subjects too.

Laws provide, as much as is possible, that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and violence of others; they do not guard them from the negligence or ill-husbandry of the possessors themselves. No man can be forced to be rich or healthful, whether he will or no. Nay, God Himself will not save men against their wills.