Exhibits Quotes - Page 9

• Architecture exhibits the greatest extent of the difference from nature which may exist in works of art. It involves all the powers of design, and is sculpture and painting inclusively. It shows the greatness of man, and should at the same time teach him humility.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Art, Humility, Greatness

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.335

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• I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Duty, Ought

  Alexander Hamilton (1850). “Correspondence. 1769-1789”, p.294

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• No body wishes more than I do to see such proofs as you exhibit, that nature has given to our black brethren, talents equal to those of the other colors of men, and that the appearance of a want of them is owing merely to the degraded condition of their existence, both in Africa & America.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Color, America

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.128, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Identity, Matter

  "Song: 'So You Want To Write A Fugue'". 1997.

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• Perhaps there is a minimum distance that should separate one exhibit from another... Indeed those specialized in psychophysics have actually come up with some rules.

  Semir Zeki

  Distance, Exhibitions, Should

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• While about one-third of Americans believe in ghosts, you won't find many exhibits on these spooky beings down at the local science museum. Why? Well, one explanation that you might consider, ghosts are just figments of our highly fertile imaginations!

  Seth Shostak

  Believe, Museums, Imagination

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• If there is to be responsible party government, the party label must be something more than a mere device for securing office. Unless those who are elected under the same party designation are willing to assume sufficient responsibility and exhibit sufficient loyalty and coherence, so that they can cooperate with each other in the support of the broad general principles, of the party platform, the election is merely a mockery, no decision is made at the polls, and there is no representation of the popular will.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Loyalty, Party, Responsibility

  Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 4 March 1925

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• If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.

  Anna Quindlen

  Intelligent, Cheese Sandwiches, Views

  "Frankincense In Aisle Five!". www.newsweek.com. December 25, 2005.

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• In a museum in London there is an exhibit called "The Value of Man": a long coffinlike box with lots of compartments where they've put starch phosphorus flour bottles of water and alcohol and big pieces of gelatin. I am a man like that.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Men, Museums, Water

  Letter, May 17, 1867.

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• "Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely on the changing standards of superstition, religion, Christianity and gender bias to define themselves. Americans, in particular, exhibit very childish reactions to sexual practices that are new to them, much like little kids who are offered a vegetable they haven't seen before: "That's disgusting!" "But darling, you haven't even tried it!" "I don't care, I hate it, I hate it!

  Susie Bright

  Hate, Kids, Gender Bias

  "Nothing But the Girl" by Susie Bright, (Introduction), 1996.

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• God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention.

  Mark Twain

  God, Writing, Attention

  Mark Twain (2004). “The Letters of Mark Twain”, p.79, 1st World Publishing

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• According to my observations, mankind are among the most easily tamable and domesticable of all creatures in the animal world. They are readily reducible to submission, so readily conditionable (to coin a word) as to exhibit an almost incredibly enduring patience under restraint and oppression of the most flagrant character. So far are they from displaying any overweening love of freedom that they show a singular contentment with a condition of servitorship, often showing a curious canine pride in it, and again often simply unaware that they are existing in that condition.

  Albert J. Nock

  Character, Pride, Animal

  "Memoirs of a Superfluous Man" by Albert J. Nock, (p. 314), 1943.

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• A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality.

  James Branch Cabell

  Writing, Men, People

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.7, eBookIt.com

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• Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

  Horace Bushnell

  Character, Perfect, Mind

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.294

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• A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

  William Whewell

  Attitude, Men, Soul

  "Platonic Dialogues for English Readers, Vol. 1". Book by William Whewell, "Remarks on the Phaedo", pp. 441-2, 1859.

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• The weak shows his strength and hides his weaknesses; the magnificent exhibits his weaknesses like ornaments.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Weakness, Ornaments, Shows

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.93, Random House

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• The strong equilibrium point f just described is one of "unrelenting ferocity" against offenders. It exhibits a zeal for meting out justice that is entirely oblivious to the sometimes dire consequences to oneself or to the other faitheful i.e., those who have not deviated.

  Robert Aumann

  Strong, Justice, Sometimes

  "Contributions to the Theory of Games IV, Annals of Mathematics Study 40". Book edited by A. W. Tucker and R. D. Luce, 1959.

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• If the system exhibits a structure which can be represented by a mathematical equivalent, called a mathematical model, and if the objective can be also so quantified, then some computational method may be evolved for choosing the best schedule of actions among alternatives. Such use of mathematical models is termed mathematical programming.

  George Dantzig

  Alternatives, Use, Schedules

  George Dantzig (2016). “Linear Programming and Extensions”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• The moment we recognize our complete weakness and our dependence upon Him will be the very moment that the Spirit of God will exhibit His power.

  Oswald Chambers

  Weakness, Spirit, Moments

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.271, Discovery House

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• By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways...our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself...'Are there things I'd like to change?'

  Mac Anderson

  Morning, Attitude, Mirrors

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• You're dealing with a character who is, at some points, quite insane. And I hope that any wicked, dark sense of humor Eric exhibits comes out of the fact that he'd been pushed to the point where it seems quite sensible to say some of the ridiculous things he says.

  Brandon Lee

  Character, Dark, Wicked

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• In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more.

  Tupac Shakur

  Country, Strong, Teenager

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out.

  Chris Kraus

  Art, Writing, Work Out

  Chris Kraus (2000). “Aliens & anorexia”, Semiotext

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• A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

  Honore de Balzac

  Naked, Skirts, Nudity

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• When will conventional good manners become attractive? When will ladies of fashion exhibit their shoulders a little less and their affability and wit a little more?

  Honore de Balzac

  Fashion, Good Man, Littles

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