Quotes About Examples

A good stock of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept, and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea of God than do the often ill-applied examples of his wrath.

The rule then provides examples of "the character of the reasons the Court considers.

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely possible that examples of life as we don't know it have so far been overlooked.

You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.

We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

It would be tedious to continue piling example upon example, statistic upon statistic. For at a certain point, a feeling of deep lethargy sets in, and our reaction is: 'What's the use?' or 'What can one man possibly do?' If we respond in this manner, we are lost. For it is precisely by shifting problems from the trivial to the tragic plane, by forsaking a personal view for a cosmic one, that we rationalize and manage to shrug off our own personal responsibility.

life is a collection of similarities rather than identities; no single observation is a perfect example of generality.

At the beginning, I thought the best Islamic work was in Spain - the mosque in Cordoba, the Alhambra in Granada. But as I learned more, my ideas shifted. I traveled to Egypt, and to the Middle East many times.I found the most wonderful examples of Islamic work in Cairo, it turns out. I'd visited mosques there before, but I didn't see them with the same eye as I did this time. They truly said something to me about Islamic architecture.

Fifthly, The schools of learning and religion are so corrupted, as (besides the unsupportable charge of education) most children, even the best, wittiest, and of the fairest hopes, are perverted, corrupted, and utterly overthrown, by the multitude of evil examples and licentious behaviours in these seminaries.

I know it's become an ongoing thing about whether videogames are art, and I think there's plenty of examples of things that use the form in a fascinating way. Things that are more surreal or artistic, like 'Katamari Damacy' or 'Vib-Ribbon.'

In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

People who are proud of themselves tend to have passions in life, feel content and set good examples for others!!

Old men like to give good advice in order to console themselves for not being any longer able to set bad examples.

Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

Old men are fond of giving advice to console themselves for being no longer in a position to give bad examples.

They call 50 years the Golden Anniversary; the two of you shine and are great examples of what a marriage should be.

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

in view of the extreme complexity of the phenomena of social life it is always possible to select any number of examples or separate data to prove any proposition),

When a majority of people in any society share the same array of illusions and cling passionately to them, they will encourage one another until illusion becomes delusion, until delusion becomes mass insanity. Whole societies do go mad. History is filled with chilling examples. Joe Smith knew it when he built this house.

Learn from examples in history lest thou be made an example

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.