Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

We are free to yield to truth.

I had become with the approach of night once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

Looking down the road space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

Technology has allowed us to have more drought-resistant crops. The spotty nature of drought the spotty nature of rains can sometimes result in better yields than anticipated.

Grudge no expense - yield to no opposition - forget fatigue - till by the strength of prayer and sacrifice the spirit of love shall have overcome .

In the spirit of science there really is no such thing as a 'failed experiment.' Any test that yields valid data is a valid test.

I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty.

The first act of religion therefore concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being and we therefore yield to our neighbors even to our animal neighbors the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations they will struggle and snatch from each other and inclinations to defer or yield will die.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Commitment means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to a purpose or cause a movement or an ideal which may be more important to him than whether he lives or dies.

When love beckons to you follow him Though his ways are hard and steep. And when his wings enfold you yield to him Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Come live with me and be my love And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys groves hills and fields Woods or steepy mountain yields.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them nor intuition without concepts can yield knowledge.

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.

When we cannot hope to win it is an advantage to yield.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.