Subject Quotes - page 2

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
Sincerity is always subject to proof. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Who am I? Subject and object in one - contemplating and contemplated, thinking and thought of. As both must I have become what I am. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. View quote
George Will
Transient bodies are only subject to destruction through their substance and not through their form, nor can the essence of their form be destroyed; in this respect, they are permanent. View quote
Maimonides
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. View quote
George Eliot
On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art. View quote
André Malraux
In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little, human detail can become a Leitmotiv. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
In every work of art the subject is primordial, whether the artist knows it or not. The measure of the formal qualities is only a sign of the measure of the artist's obsession with his subject; the form is always in proportion to the obsession. (Alberto Giacometti)
I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other. View quote
John von Neumann
Grasp the subject, the words will follow. View quote
Cato the Elder
If one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the cloistered walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp of one's subject matter. View quote
Margaret Mead
I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The more we learn of the true nature of non-human animals, especially those with complex brains and corresponding complex social behavior, the more ethical concerns are raised regarding their use in the service of man - whether this be in entertainment, as "pets," for food, in research laboratories, or any of the other uses to which we subject them. View quote
Jane Goodall
There is only one tactical principle which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wound, death, and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time. View quote
George S. Patton
In mainstream economic theory, the firm and the market are, for the most part, assumed to exist and are not themselves the subject of investigation. One result has been that the crucial role of the law in determining the activities carried out by the firm and in the market has been largely ignored. View quote
Ronald Coase
We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not,” said the witch, "or die of despair. View quote
Philip Pullman
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage. (George Bernard Shaw)
And while we are on the subject of medication you always need to look at risk versus benefit. View quote
Temple Grandin
I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The grand style arises in poetry, when a noble nature, treats with simplicity or with severity a serious subject. View quote
Matthew Arnold
I hate being the subject of photographs. View quote
Richard Griffiths