Carolus Linnaeus Quotes

#1. Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive ... that is where God is.

Ignatius Of Loyola

#2. And now that Reason's light returns, New sorrow in his spirit burns.

Sophocles

#3. Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Mike Crapo

#4. The spirit longs for the world of light from which it came. That longing causes something to happen. It causes the being to grow into light.

Frederick Lenz

#5. I stood in a Burger King and studied, with absorption, the photographs of the manager and his executive crew (reflecting on the curious fact that people who go into hamburger management always look as if their mother slept with Goofy),

Bill Bryson

#6. Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.

Carolus Linnaeus

#7. A practical botanist will distinguish at the first glance the plant of the different quarters of the globe and yet will be at a loss to tell by what marks he detects them.

Carolus Linnaeus

#8. When your enemies shut a door, God opens a window.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. That taught me a lesson I've always found it useful to remember if I have to deal with difficult men. When they are hard, they are probably dealing with things they do not understand. If one brings them back to what is familiar to them, they become soft.

Rebecca West

#10. Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.

Tim O'Brien

#11. Awareness neither dies nor is re-born. It is the changeless reality itself.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#12. Feed two birds with one crumb.

Mischa Temaul

#13. A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Rajneesh

#14. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.

Charles Darwin

#15. Linnaeus had it constantly in mind: 'The closer we get to know the creatures around us, the clearer is the understanding we obtain of the chain of nature, and its harmony and system'.

Sten Lindroth

#16. Magic is never totally scientifically explainable, but science has always been, at one time or another, considered magic.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#17. Everybody in the government with whom I emailed knew that I was using a personal email, and I have said it would have been a better choice to have had two separate email accounts. And I've also tried to not only take responsibility, because it was my decision, but to be as transparent as possible.

Hillary Clinton