Quotation Explorer - 'Origin'

All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination. - Carl Jung
. . . the mysteries, on belief in which theology would hang the destinies of mankind, are cunningly devised fables whose origin and growth are traceable to the age of Ignorance, the mother of credulity. - Edward Clodd
Babynology.com explores baby names of all origins; you can get plenty of baby names along with meaning and origin. You can even search the meanings of your baby names. - Baby nology
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. - Stephen Jay Gould
Dubium sapientiae initium (Doubt is the origin of wisdom). - René Descartes
We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge. - George F. Will
I may not agree with what you say, but I'll fight to the death for your right to die in a fire of suspicious origin
Education...beyond all other devices of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men --the balance wheel of the social machinery...It does better than to disarm the poor of their hostility toward the rich; it prevents being poor. - Horace Mann
The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations. - Guy Murchie
I prefer that these reserves be spent in arguing whether Mary conceived without sin, whether Christ was God or man, rather than discussing whether my power is of divine origin and if, in short, I am deserving of it. Heresy, then, is tolerable as long as it is not employed directly against power. - Carlos Fuentes
Everything we know and believe about deity and divinity nowadays, is a direct origin of old civilizations. Everybody, Greeks, Saxons, Assyrians and Soumerians, all imitate the ancient ways of the first tribes of central Africa (Mason father to his son in "The Omniconstant - Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis
Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge. - Dante Alighieri
It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others. - Cornelius Tacitus
Curiosity is the origin of knowledge. Experience is the origin of wisdom. - Debasish Mridha
All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions - Leonardo da Vinci
History most grandiose accomplishments can have the most trivial origin - Faisal Khosa
Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession. - Mark Twain
If origin defines race, then the entire human race is African. - Abhijit Naskar
Earth should suspect a man who has no tears of compassion and eject into the outer space until he learns humility. Outer space and death might be of the same origin, where one chances upon egolessness just before lifelessness. Earth only asks for egolessness. - Adam Kovacevic
Egoism’s nature is not Moha (Illusory attachment). Moha’s (Illusory attachment’s) nature is egoism. Moha is the origin of egoism. - Dada Bhagwan
How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others. - Ashly Lorenzana
Life is like a curve, horizontally or vertically, we are at origin point - Estiana Cahyawati
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
ERUDITION, n. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. So wide his erudition's mighty span, He knew Creation's origin and plan And only came by accident to grief -- He thought, poor man, 'twas right to be a thief. Romach Pute - Ambrose Bierce
The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin. - George Jellinek
In magnitude, though my heart is merely a fist fold, fathomless is the depth of my love for you. For despite my continual searching, a mystery its origin forever remains. - Solomon Debisette
You can invoke neither time nor space nor matter not energy nor the laws of nature to explain the origin of the universe. General relativity points to the need for a cause that transcends those domains. ~Stephen C. Meyer, PHD~ - Lee Strobel
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.
Don’t know if it’s good or bad that a Google search on Big Bang Theory lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe - Neil deGrasse Tyson
According to the conclusion of Dr. Hutton, and of many other geologists, our continents are of definite antiquity, they have been peopled we know not how, and mankind are wholly unacquainted with their origin. - Jean-André de Luc
Revealing of origin , evidence the existence of hidden pearls in mind which is addicted to imagine and thought as well. - Seema Gupta
Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels. - Francisco de Goya
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The origin of innovation and entrepreneurship is a creative mindset - Michael Harris
We must, however, acknowledge as it seems to me, that a man with all his noble qualities...still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. - Charles Darwin
Humans are capable of any thing. Just look how most technology you use today and see its origin and you will see over time we can improve in different ways. - Lee Sonogan
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students. - Felix Bloch
When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life. - Roman Payne
Do not accept any information without a deep research on the origin. - Lailah Gifty Akita
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