(545 quotes found)
“There is no art To find the mind's construction in the face”
William Shakespeare
“The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.”
Walter Benjamin
“You should be truthful, constructive and not personal, vindictive or petty. You might say, 'Here are some suggestions for the next person who has this job.”
Ben Dattner
“To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.”
William James
“The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things.”
Albert Einstein
“We've constructed what we consider a micron-scale analog of an ox, ... These are 'micro-oxen,' a micro-scale beast of burden.”
George Whitesides
“There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.”
Wayne Dyer
“All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them.”
“The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“In constructing concepts, we overlook the fact that no two things are the same. There is no such thing as the concept of a leaf, only billions and billions of leaves.”
Friedrich Nietzsche