Accumulation Quotes

The great end of education is to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulation of others. (Tryon Edwards)
In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. View quote
Guy Debord
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. View quote
H. G. Wells
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion, everyday acts of compassion. In South Africa they have a phrase called ubuntu. Ubuntu comes out of a philosophy that says, the only way for me to be human is for you to reflect my humanity back at me. View quote
Chris Abani
Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge, but rather, one thing only: understanding. View quote
Donna Jo Napoli
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict and control many time-dependent macroscopic chemical processes which are important in nature or to human society. View quote
Yuan T. Lee
The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own. View quote
John Adams
The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. View quote
James Madison
Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise. View quote
Samuel Smiles
For all his understanding of worldly concerns, when it came to fathoming the deeper meaning of his own furious activity, Sir Bob displayed the sort of laziness for which he himself had no patience in others. He appeared to have only a passing interest in the overall purpose of his financial accumulation. View quote
Alain de Botton
He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice. (Zadie Smith)
Knowledge, surely, is always of time, whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement. View quote
Bruce Lee
The rapid accumulation of change is not always progress, and forward motion is not always an advance. View quote
Jonathan Weiner
In all the talk in the Principles (as opposed to the formal analysis) it is not the saving of rentiers but the energy of entrepreneurs which governs accumulation. View quote
Joan Robinson
Every day a sharp tool, a powerful destroyer, is necessary to cut away dullness, lobotomy, buzzing, belief in human beings, stagnancy, images, and accumulation. As soon as we stop believing in human beings, rather know we are dogs and trees, we'll start to be happy. View quote
Kathy Acker
The accumulation of capital and misery go hand in hand, concentrated in space. View quote
David Harvey
If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained? View quote
David Harvey
The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time. View quote
David Harvey
Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it. View quote
Mary Shelley
A mind does not receive truth as a chest receives jewels that are put into it, but as the stomach takes up food into the system. It is no longer food, but flesh, and is assimilated. The appetite and the power of digestion measure our right to knowledge. He has it who can use it. As soon as our accumulation overruns our invention or power to use, the evils of intellectual gluttony begin,- congestion of the brain, apoplexy and strangulation. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape. (Daniel J. Boorstin)
Every civilization must be organized in such a way that it has invention, capital accumulation, and investment. View quote
Carroll Quigley
All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction. View quote
Rohinton Mistry
After thee accumulation of too much history we have lost our innocence, we cannot easily believe in any explanations. We describe rather than feel, we touch rather than explore, we lust rather than adore. View quote
Genesis P-Orridge
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. View quote
Albert Einstein