We have found that where science has progressed the farthest the mind has but regained from nature that which the mind put into nature.
I think opera has gained a kind of glamorous appeal. It's a live performance that aligns all of the arts and when it is represented in the media in film in particular it is presented as something that is really a special event whether it's a great date or something that's just hugely romantic.
I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever and I've just grown older. I mean I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor too.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions.
Knowledge once gained casts a light beyond its own immediate boundaries.
Through the mythology of Einstein the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula.
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
The ability to perceive or think differently is more important than the knowledge gained.
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
The voice of the intellect is a soft one but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.
No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few and that too at the expense of social pleasure health conscience life.
The inspired Scriptures make the clear distinction between false and true riches and make plain the reason why happiness is gained and fully enjoyed only by those who find true riches.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
The Government and the Parliament even the House of Lords will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.
Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
Freedom must be gained step by step slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it.
Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.
Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself it is that I no longer have anything to fear.
I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.