From principles is derived probability but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

Adversity is a great teacher but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive is not worth the price we paid.

The teacher must derive not only the capacity but the desire to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.

But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals as the individuals must derive a supply of their strength from social power.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based.

Jesus wept Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.

We need to understand that we are not each others' enemies in this country. And it is only the political class that derives its power by creating friction. It is only the media that derives its importance by creating friction... that uses every little thing to create this chasm between people. This is not who we are.

I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

In all our associations in all our agreements let us never lose sight of this fundamental maxim - that all power was originally lodged in and consequently is derived from the people.

Words derive their power from the original word.

Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

I think that if people are instructed about anything it should be about the nature of cruelty. And about why people behave so cruelly to each other. And what kind of satisfactions they derive from it. And why there is always a cost and a price to be paid.

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man even though I know he's guilty do you think I could sleep at night or look at myself in the mirror in the morning if I hounded an innocent man?

Organizations endure however in proportion to the breadth of the morality by which they are governed. Thus the endurance of organization depends upon the quality of leadership and that quality derives from the breadth of the morality upon which it rests.

I have an incredible amount of basketball knowledge and I think a lot of that is derived from having a Hall of Fame college basketball coach who was very knowledgeable of the game and I had a great high school coach who was also very knowledgeable.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

The strength of a nation derives from the integrity of the home.

A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over on this day his ideal will die.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy but in truth it is centered in ourselves.