Stamp Quotes

All science is either physics or stamp collecting. (Ernest Rutherford)
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
Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it. View quote
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better. View quote
William Wycherley
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures. View quote
Edmund Burke
Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed. View quote
William Temple
A liberal education forms a single body. Those, therefore, who from tender years receive instruction in the various forms of learning, recognize the same stamp on all the arts, and an intercourse between all studies, and so they more readily comprehend them all. (Vitruvius)
I'm done with girls on rocks! I've painted them for thirteen years and I could paint them and sell them for thirteen more. That's the peril of the commercial art game. It tempts a man to repeat himself. it's an awful thing to get to be a rubber stamp. I'm quitting my rut now while I'm still able. View quote
Maxfield Parrish
I've long believed alas, that in highly organized industrial societies, capitalist or socialist, the stronger tendency is to converge - that if steel or automobiles are wanted and must be made on a large scale, the process will stamp its imprint on the society, whether that me be Magnitogorsk or Gary, Indiana. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same time bearing the stamp of the most incontestable madness: that of being unable to resist that old atavistic reflex of the mass of humanity, which makes any man of science who is absorbed by this mass a kind of natural and inborn enemy of all genius. View quote
Antonin Artaud
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
[A] good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous. View quote
George Washington
You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return. View quote
Alexei Panshin
There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed. View quote
H. Rider Haggard
Even if I'd stayed [in the US to finish The Magnificent Ambersons I would've had to make compromises on the editing, but these would've been mine and not the fruit of confused and often semi-hysterical committees. If I had been there myself I would have found my own solutions and saved the pictures in a form which would have carried the stamp of my own effort. View quote
Orson Welles
Arrest each unloving thought; stamp out each critical action, and teach yourself to love all beings - not in theory but in deed and in truth. View quote
Alice Bailey
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness. (Charles Spurgeon)
One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass. View quote
John Dos Passos
In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything. View quote
Jack Welch
Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never. View quote
Frederick William Robertson