Foundation Quotes

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. (Ambrose Bierce)
Good order is the foundation of all good things. View quote
Edmund Burke
In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. View quote
Albrecht Dürer
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. View quote
Charlotte Brontë
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth. View quote
Yukio Mishima
Obedience to lawful authority is the foundation of manly character. View quote
Robert E. Lee
Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built. View quote
Leon Uris
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. (Anthony Robbins)
The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. View quote
William Blake
If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth. View quote
Havelock Ellis
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. View quote
David Brinkley
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
Optimism is the foundation of courage. View quote
Nicholas Murray Butler
The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth. View quote
Claudio Monteverdi
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism. View quote
Claude McKay
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life. View quote
Tina Turner
Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. View quote
George W. Bush
Our comforting conviction that the world makes sense rests on a secure foundation: our almost unlimited ability to ignore our ignorance. (Daniel Kahneman)
While politicians, clergy, creators of advertisements, and other worthies assert stoutly that the family is the foundation of society, the nuclear family, as an institution, is currently in grave trouble. View quote
Jane Jacobs
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity. View quote
Thomas Mann
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
To sum up: numbers appear to represent both an attribute of matter and the unconscious foundation of our mental process. For this reason, number forms, according to Jung, that particular element that unites the realms of matter and psyche. It is "real” in a double sense, as an archetypal image and as a qualitative manifestation in the realm of outer-world experience. View quote
Marie-Louise von Franz