Cognisance Quotes

#1. It is essential to grasp the incontestable truth that a Marxist must take cognisance of real life, of the true facts of reality, and not cling to a theory of yesterday, which, like all theories, at best only outlines the main and the general, only comes near to embracing life in all its complexity.

Vladimir Lenin

#2. Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.

Michael Bassey

#3. The individual," he began in a soft and sadly philosophical tone, "is not a self-supporting universe. There are times when he comes into contact with other individuals, when he is forced to take cognisance of the existence of other universes besides himself." He

Aldous Huxley

#4. You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it.

Santosh Kalwar

#5. Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight.

Charles Spurgeon

#6. Being personally acquainted with a number of Waldorf students, I can say that they come closer to realizing their own potential than practically anyone I know.

Joseph Weizenbaum

#7. My 7-year-old daughter is not shy of telling me she can draw better than me, and she's right.

Chris Roberson

#8. I'm not bloodthirsty, but ... seriously, she killed you. She needs to be dead.

Melissa Marr

#9. If a woman has "It," she doesn't need anything else; but if she doesn't have "It," it doesn't matter what else she has.

Winston Churchill

#10. Richard Hadlee has the appearance of a rickety church steeple and a severe manner which suggests that women are not likely to be ordained yet.

Peter Roebuck

#11. The chameleon, who is said to feed upon nothing but air, has of all animals the nimblest tongue.

Jonathan Swift

#12. Over the course of my career, which is about 40 years, I've visited plenty of prisons and I know what they're like.

Kate Mulgrew

#13. With a sigh of relief, Clary glanced back over her shoulder. Magnus was standing at the door to the cottage, his arms folded across his chest. Catching her eye, he grinned and dropped one eyelid in a single, glittering wink.

Cassandra Clare

#14. When all is said and done, I personally think that success is when you're consistently improving and outdoing yourself.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#15. Where we got to know eachother. Not just with words, it was how we observed eachother's movements. The way your smile only effected the lower half of your face. How our hands moved when they were close: as if they had minds of their own.

Elaine Turnbo

#16. Love is not a mere sentiment but an instrument of ability.

Debasish Mridha

#17. In a basic sense, the greater the development of each individual the more able, more effective, and less needy of limiting or restricting others she or he will be.

Jean Baker Miller