Formation Quotes - Page 9

• The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.

  Edward Thorndike

  Race, Numbers, Intellectual

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1924). “The Evolution of the Human Intellect”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Men, Numbers

  10 Copy quote

• I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

  Thornton Wilder

  Unhappy Childhood, Atheism, Essentials

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.69, Univ. Press of Mississippi

  16 Copy quote

  Show source

• In all her history, from the formation of the federal government until the hour of secession, no year stands out more prominently than the year 1858 as evidencing the national patriotism of Virginia.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Government, Virginia, Years

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.68, Anza Publishing

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In particular, the efforts to reestablish peace after the World War have been directed toward the formation of states and the regulation of their frontiers according to a consciously national program.

  Christian Lous Lange

  War, Effort, World

  4 Copy quote

• I, therefore, demand the formation of a consolidated Muslim State in the best interest of India and Islam.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Islam, India, Demand

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2002). “Muslim Political Thought: A Reconstruction”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Consciousness is a phase of mental life which arises in connection with the formation of new habits. When habit is formed, consciousness only interferes to spoil our performance.

  William Ralph Inge

  Connections, Phases, Consciousness

  William Ralph Inge (1932). “More Lay Thoughts of a Dean”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

  Margaret Atwood

  Thinking, Crystals, Problem

  Margaret Atwood (2006). “Waltzing Again: New and Selected Conversations with Margaret Atwood”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

  Hosea Ballou

  Family, Mom, Education

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

  87 Copy quote

  Show source

• The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

  John C. Calhoun

  Errors, Confusion, Transition

  JOHN C. CALHOUN (1854). “A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT AND A DISCOURSE ON THE CONSTITUTIONA ND GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES”, p.90

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Spiritual, School

  7 Copy quote

• State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.

  Noam Chomsky

  Overcoming, States, Projects

  4 Copy quote

• I think there's true drama in the formation of everything that we know and are standing on the shoulders of.

  Kevin Costner

  Drama, Thinking, Shoulders

  "‘Hatfields And McCoys’ Interviews: Kevin Costner And Bill Paxton Preview History Miniseries". Interview with Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe.

  Georges Cuvier

  Science, Earth, Fossils

  "Discourse on the Revolutionary Upheavals on the Surface of the Earth". Book by Georges Cuvier, 1825.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.

  Jefferson Davis

  Together, Slavery, Unions

  8 Copy quote

• I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

  Alex Ferguson

  Soccer, Teamwork, Canada

  13 Copy quote

• Chaga is one of the weirdest mushrooms you may ever see. A fungal parasite found on birch trees, Chaga is a hardened, blackened, crusty formation that looks like a bursting tumor.

  Paul Stamets

  Mushrooms, Tree, Looks

  "Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2012.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• The appearance in nineteenth-century psychiatry, jurisprudence, and literature of a whole series of discourses on the species and subspecies of homosexuality, inversion, pederasty, and "psychic hermaphroditism" made possible a strong advance of social controls into this area of "perversity"; but it also made possible the formation of a "reverse" discourse: homosexuality began to speak in its own behalf, to demand that its legitimacy or "naturality" be acknowledged, often in the same vocabulary, using the same categories by which it was medically disqualified.

  Michel Foucault

  Strong, Psychics, Vocabulary

  "The History of Sexuality, Volume I: The Will to Knowledge". Book by Michel Foucault, 1978.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• (Space programs are) a force operating on educational pipelines that stimulate the formation of scientists, technologists, engineers and mathematicians... They're the ones that make tomorrow come. The foundations of economies... issue forth from investments we make in science and technology.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Educational, Technology, Issues

  4 Copy quote

• Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mistake, Character, Past

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Penny Dreadfuls: Tales of Horror: Dracula, Frankenstein, and The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.719, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• On the beach, at dawn: Four small stones clearly Hugging each other. How many kinds of love Might there be in the world, And how many formations might they make And who am I ever To imagine I could know Such a marvelous business? When the sun broke It poured willingly its light Over the stones That did not move, not at all, Just as, to its always generous term, It shed its light on me, My own body that loves, Equally, to hug another body.

  Mary Oliver

  Beach, Moving, Light

  Mary Oliver (2010). “Swan: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.9, Beacon Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.

  Howard Zinn

  Character, Men, Female

  Howard Zinn (2014). “A People's History of the United States”, p.105, Pan Macmillan

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” Piper leaned over the console. “Are you sure they’re Roman?” Leo rolled his eyes. “No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they’re Roman!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Sight, Eagles

  19 Copy quote

• I love crystals, the beauty of their forms and formation; liquids, dormant, distilling, sloshing! The fumes, the odors good or bad, the rainbow of colors; the gleaming vessels of every size, shape and purpose.

  Robert Burns Woodward

  Science, Color, Rainbow

  15 Copy quote

• The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day.

  William Bennett

  Education, Character, People

  William J. Bennett (1989). “Our Children and Our Country: Improving America's Schools and Affirming the Common Culture”, Touchstone Books

  8 Copy quote

  Show source