Origin Quotes

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition. (Cesare Pavese)
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin. View quote
Charles Darwin
Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves. View quote
U Thant
Sabbath - a weekly festival having its origin in the fact that God made the world in six days and was arrested on the seventh. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots. View quote
Marcus Garvey
Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility. View quote
William Wordsworth
We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards. View quote
A. E. Waite
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. (Horace Mann)
I have always held those political opinions which point to the universal brotherhood of man, no matter in what rank of life he may have taken his origin. View quote
Alexander Mackenzie
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. View quote
Richard Owen
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. View quote
Bertrand Russell
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all other living creatures here below. It is this which has established his dominion, and this it is which justifies it, over all the world. View quote
Jules Verne
Every gift of noble origin Is breathed upon by Hope's perpetual breath. View quote
William Wordsworth
All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money. View quote
Robert Collier
Natural science served as - if we overlook the hasty identification of mind and matter which had its origin in natural science - as a shining and fruitful example to psychology. View quote
Hermann Ebbinghaus
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. View quote
Laozi
A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit. View quote
Lakhdar Brahimi
It is mere rubbish thinking, at present, of origin of life; one might as well think of origin of matter. (Charles Darwin)
Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too. View quote
Frank Wilczek
Because finally, "the equal right of every citizen to the free exercise of his religion according to the dictates of conscience” is held by the same tenure with all his other rights. If we recur to its origin, it is equally the gift of nature; if we weigh its importance, it cannot be less dear to us; if we consider "the declaration of those rights which pertain to the good people of Virginia as the basis and foundation of government,” it is enumerated with equal solemnity, or rather studied emphasis. View quote
James Madison
The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge. View quote
Louis Agassiz
In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin. View quote
Michael Shermer