Top 17 Outruns Quotes
#1. Individuality outruns all classification, yet we insist on classifying every one we meet under some general head.
William James
#2. Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.
James Fenimore Cooper
#3. That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#4. Maybe we need to reflect on the fact that the patience of God always outruns the impatience of our greed, and that His love always outweighs the greed that outweighs our love for Him.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#5. To perceive means to immobilize ... we seize, in the act of perception, something which outruns perception itself.
Henri Bergson
#6. The noise makes your heart jump, but hearing a sniper bullet is a good thing. The bullet outruns the sound wave; if it's on target, it kills you before you ever hear the sound of the shot.
Benedict Jacka
#7. Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.
Walter Scott
#8. Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.
Isocrates
#10. Either a good or a bad reputation outruns and gets before people wherever they go.
Lord Chesterfield
#11. Love is purely a creation of the human imagination ... the most important example of how the imagination continually outruns the creature it inhabits.
Katherine Anne Porter
#12. Administrative purpose usually outruns the facts. Indeed the administrative official's ardor for facts usually begins when he wants to change the facts!
Mary Parker Follett
#13. ...I stand looking at the aircraft, trying in vain to remember all the theoretical lore which i was supposed to have absorbed in school. The effort is discouraging.
Ernest K. Gann
#14. In fact, we know full well today that it is futile to speak of liberty as long as economic slavery exists.
Pyotr Kropotkin
#15. Herman Cain said he wants people to know that there's more between his ears than pepperoni and pizza sauce. He says there's also a few napkins and crazy bread.
Conan O'Brien
#16. For the Afro-American in the 1920's being a 'New Negro' was being 'Modern'. And being an 'New Negro' meant, largely, not being an 'Old Negro', disassociating oneself from the symbols and legacy of slavery - being urbane, assertive militant.
Nathan Huggins