(320 quotes found)
“What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic”
Charles Sanders Peirce
“The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration: I mean a Future Life”
Joseph Butler
“Confidence is the foundation for all business relations. The degree of confidence a man has in others, and the degree of confidence others have in him, determines a man's standing in the commercial and industrial world.”
William J. H. Boetcker
“Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Character is the only secure foundation of the state.”
Calvin Coolidge
“By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.”
Yukio Mishima
“Education is the foundation upon which we build our future.”
Christine Gregoire
“The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.”
George Santayana