(117 quotes found)
“Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.”
William Arthur Ward
“It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.”
William Osler
“Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.”
William J. Brennan Jr.
“It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine”
Charles Darwin
“The 21 Arab states that could easily have absorbed the original 650,000 Palestinian refugees in 1948 refused to do so, even though their combined land mass was 700 times greater than that possessed by Israel. By contrast, the Jewish population of the new state was only 600,000, yet Israel willingly absorbed some 820,000 Jewish refugees from Europe.”
Randall Price
“Heritage is Scriptures . . . which have become absorbed into our blood.”
Sholem Asch
“One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“This Melting Pot of ours absorbs the second generation over a flame so high that the first is left encrusted on the rim.”
John Tarkov
“The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.”
David Mamet
“Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.”
Arthur Christiansen
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