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  • Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Distance Quotes , Sight Quotes
  • There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Edgar Allan Poe Quotes , Distance Quotes , Goal Quotes
  • When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Dalai Lama Quotes , Distance Quotes , Talking Quotes
  • The French believe that all errors are distant, someone else's fault. Americans believe that there is no distance, no difference, and therefore that there are no errors, that any troubles are simple misunderstandings, consequent on your not yet having spoken English loudly enough.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Distance Quotes , Believe Quotes
  • Good as is discourse, silence is better, and shames it. The length of the discourse indicates the distance of thought betwixt the speaker and the hearer. If they were at a perfect understanding in any part, no words would be necessary thereon. If at one in all parts, no words would be suffered.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Distance Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the first time -- acknowledging that it has chemical weapons, agreeing to join the convention that prohibits the use of chemical weapons, and the Russians -- their primary sponsors -- saying that they will push Syria to get all of their chemical weapons out. The distance that we've traveled over these couple of weeks is remarkable.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Couple Quotes , Distance Quotes
  • Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But poetry and religion always insist upon the proximity, the almost menacing closeness of the things with which they are concerned. Always the Kingdom of Heaven is "At Hand."
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Stars Quotes , Distance Quotes
  • We come now to the question: what is a priori certain or necessary, respectively in geometry (doctrine of space) or its foundations? Formerly we thought everything; nowadays we think nothing. Already the distance-concept is logically arbitrary; there need be no things that correspond to it, even approximately.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Distance Quotes , Math Quotes