#origin

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. ↗

— Barbara Tuchman

#away #book #ghost #holy #holy ghost

As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#because #cannot #developed #ignorant #know

I have lots of records, quite a collection, actually, that I stole from my mom. I have the original 'Thriller' album and I have a really great 'Elton John's Greatest Hits,' and I also have a N.E.R.D. album. Records sound more original. They have more edge. ↗

— Elisha Cuthbert

#album #also #collection #edge #elton

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement. ↗

— Michael Korda

#always #been #between #distance #easy

How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#doubt #early #foreign #found #his

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South. ↗

— Isaac Hayes

#african #drum #first #go #grew

Hey, every once in awhile the secondary form works better than the original but it's certainly a rarity. ↗

— Jaime Hernandez

#better #certainly #every #form #hey

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#anywhere #attached #because #cling #does

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#betterment #concept #content #essential #ideal

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions on the human mind. ↗

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

#greatest #greatest number #history #human #human mind