Top 100 Quotes About Universal
#1. The great problem of today is, how to subject all physical phenomena to dynamical laws. With all the experimental devices, and all the mathematical appliances of this generation, the human mind has been baffled in its attempts to construct a universal science of physics.
Joseph Lovering
#2. I'm going to live long enough to live in an America that will assume universal health care is a basic right. That will be amusing and terrific.
Anna Quindlen
#3. I like having songs that go from the personal to the kind of inter-relational, universal, because everything comes back to micro/macro and everything's tied in.
Serj Tankian
#4. Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life.
Leo Tolstoy
#5. You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.
Leonard Nimoy
#6. Energy is the only universal currency: one of its many forms must be transformed to another in order for stars to shine, planets to rotate, plants to grow, and civilizations to evolve.
Vaclav Smil
#7. The subconscious mind is nothing but an energy field or mental level that resonates in line with the universal subjectivity.
Stephen Richards
#8. Think about technological float: it took centuries for the wheel to gain universal acceptance. Now any microchip device can be in use around the world in weeks.
Dee Hock
#9. As it was universal truth no one can control the power of nature, it was useless to mourn when rain poured heavily when it was least needed.
Deepika Kumaaraguru
#10. If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
Brand Blanshard
#11. Only one flagFlies above all the rest:The flag of universal oneness.
Sri Chinmoy
#12. Unconscious of the existence of Tao, beings live supposing themselves to be separate from the universal intelligence, supposing themselves to be powerful or to be weak, thinking that they live their lives and die their deaths.
Frederick Lenz
#13. Zionism is, in sum, the constant and unrelenting effort to realize the national and universal vision of the prophets of Israel.
Yigal Allon
#14. Let us pray to the Holy Spirit, who is truly the author of this unity in variety, of this harmony, that he might make us ever more "catholic" in this Church that is catholic and universal!
Pope Francis
#15. What you always try to do, as an actor, is find the thing that's universal in the person.
Finn Wittrock
#16. It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.
Prince Charles
#17. I wasn't searching for a common denominator - I started wondering about the challenge of working in other cultures. What I reached was the sudden acknowledgment of the universal aspect of filmmaking.
Abbas Kiarostami
#18. When one wants to become cognizant of the color and the texture of the soil, one does not get a ladder; one gets a shovel. When one wants to get into touch with the texture of the universal mind, one does not go to Boston; one goes to the Bowery.
Djuna Barnes
#19. This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.
Marcus Aurelius
#20. the congressional ban on the universal patient identifier the single biggest failure in the history of health IT legislation.
Robert Wachter
#21. If you first fortify yourself with the true knowledge of the Universal Self, and then live in the midst of wealth and worldliness, surely they will in no way affect you.
Ramakrishna
#22. English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. It's the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.
Richard Lederer
#23. Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#24. A realization of the universal lack of self-confidence strengthens one's own.
Anonymous
#25. While analyzing so many people I realized the constant need of a mother, or a father, or a god (the same thing) is really immaturity. It is a childish need, a human need, but so universal that I can see how it gave birth to all religions.
Anais Nin
#26. I myself am a supporter of multilingualism, but multilingualism without a true understanding of universal language will only make us blind and ultimately ineffectual in realizing that very ideal.
Minae Mizumura
#27. The civilization of the twentieth century cannot be universal except by being a dynamic synthesis of all the cultural values of all civilizations. It will be monstrous unless it is seasoned with the salt of negri-tude, for it will be without the savor of humanity.
Leopold Sedar Senghor
#28. You have about as much chance of contacting the Universal Mind with a spell from a book as you do of reaching the White House by dialing random numbers into a phone.
Katherine Lampe
#29. The Holy Grail of universal coverage in the United States may remain out of reach unless, through rational collective action overriding some individual self-interest, we can reduce per capita costs.
Donald Berwick
#31. We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.
Angela Merkel
#32. Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#33. People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
Will Cotton
#34. a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#35. I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.
Isaac Hayes
#36. I hope some day we will learn to use the power of love, not the power of gun and world will see the universal peace.
Debasish Mridha
#37. As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
George Bernard Shaw
#38. Such is hope, Heaven's own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!
Charles Dickens
#39. All governments use force and all assert that they are founded on reason. In fact, whether universal suffrage prevails or not, it is always an oligarchy that governs, finding ways to give to'the will of the people'the expression which the few desire.
Vilfredo Pareto
#40. Everything is reflected in both - outside (out there) and inside (in here) - marvel at it, experience, learn. The personal is also the universal, and the universal is also the personal.
Jay Woodman
#41. Atheism is indeed the most daring of all dogmas ... for it is the assertion of a universal negative.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#43. We stubbornly cling to past interpretations and old stories even when God's universal story is much better. The reason is not that we lack education and knowledge, but that we overflow with pride.
Nancy B. Winters
#44. Oneness is the perfect expansion
Of our inner reality.
Let our hearts oneness only increase
To make us feel
That we belong to a universal world ? family,
And this world ? family
Is a fulfilled Dream of God.
Sri Chinmoy
#45. The position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.
Rose Macaulay
#46. The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.
Victor Cousin
#47. There is a universal urge to rethink our spirituality in order to give us a new sense of security.
Claudia Llosa
#48. I am equal to a baby and to a hundred year old lady. I am equal to an airline pilot and a car mechanic. I am equal to you. You are equal to me. It's that universal.
Except that it's not.
A.S. King
#49. I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water.
Tim Costello
#50. Someone once told me that movies are a universal passport. And it's true, wherever you go.
Benh Zeitlin
#51. Music does not have a race or a disposition! Every instrument has a voice that contributes. Music is a universal language. A universal religion of sorts. Certainly it's my religion. Music surpasses all distinctions between people -Father
Pam Munoz Ryan
#52. Universal empire is the prerogative of a writer. His concerns are with all mankind, and though he cannot command their obedience,he can assign them their duty. The Republic of Letters is more ancient than monarchy, and of far higher character in the world than the vassal court of Britain.
Thomas Paine
#54. Experience alone cannot deliver to us necessary truths; truths completely demonstrated by reason. Its conclusions are particular, not universal.
John Dewey
#55. It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals.
Henry David Thoreau
#56. Great leadership isn't shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
Charles M. Blow
#57. The New Testament evinces its universal design in its very, style, which alone distinguishes it from all the literary productions of earlier and later times.
Philip Schaff
#58. Red was ruby, green was fluorescent, yellow was simply incandescent. Color was life. Color was everything.
Color, you see, was the universal sign of magic.
Tahereh Mafi
#59. The ruin of a State is generally preceded by an universal degeneracy of manners and contempt of religion.
Jonathan Swift
#61. I make a distinction between manners and etiquette - manners as the principles, which are eternal and universal, etiquette as the particular rules which are arbitrary and different in different times, different situations, different cultures.
Judith Martin
#62. Mother humor is such a universal theme. I wrote a show called '25 Questions for a Jewish Mother.' I had people coming up to me after the show saying, 'I'm Baptist, and my mother is just like yours.'
Judy Gold
#63. The United States should pursue a more robust agenda for U.S. competitiveness and innovation focused on a lower-carbon economy, including investments in education, basic research and development, infrastructure, retraining, retirement security, and universal health care.
Mona Sutphen
#64. His ship was powered, and the Martian war effort was powered, by a phenomenon known as UWTB, or the Universal Will to Become. UWTB is what makes universes out of nothingness - that makes nothingness insist on becoming somethingness.
Kurt Vonnegut
#65. I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.
Edward Tufte
#66. Universal coverage, not medical technology, is the foundation of any caring health care system.
Richard Lamm
#67. For faith is this paradox, that the particular is higher than the universal
Soren Kierkegaard
#68. Nothing is pure and entire of a piece. All advantages are attended with disadvantages. A universal compensation prevails in all conditions of being and existence.
David Hume
#69. If there's anything I've learned it's that love is an unstoppable human drive, fierce and universal, and that sex is the physical manifestation of love. And that sex without love is missing the whole damn point. Sex brings us home to love.
Sarah Katherine Lewis
#70. The problem often is that aspiring brands wish to be universally loved. Unfortunately, universal love is neither achievable nor desirable. Instead, great brands are loved by some and hated by others because they actually stand for something.
Nirmalya Kumar
#72. I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
Damien Chazelle
#73. Standing on the bare ground,
my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space,
all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#74. Human rights is a universal standard. It is a component of every religion and every civilization.
Shirin Ebadi
#75. Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children.
Ronald Reagan
#76. For users, Facebook Connect offers what could turn into a universal Internet log-in. Over 80,000 websites use it in some fashion, as of February 2010, and 60 million Facebook members are actively employing it.
David Kirkpatrick
#77. We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor just like you like to be liked yourself.
George W. Bush
#78. To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
George Bernard Shaw
#79. As long as no more than a small minority are capable of reading and writing, universal alphabetization seems like a messianic project. Only once everyone has this ability does one notice the catastrophe that almost no one can do it properly.
Peter Sloterdijk
#80. I have always felt that, aside from research that violates universal human mores, when it comes to technological applications, that which can be done will be done.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#81. Thank you ... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.
Jimmy Fallon
#82. Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
F. Sionil Jose
#84. Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.
Judith Butler
#85. To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.
Henry Ward Beecher
#86. The same principles that make a spiral galaxy also create the structure of a seashell and unfurling of a fern. This is why ancient spiritual people used natural symbols to convey universal concepts.
Belsebuub
#87. Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.
Laura Hillenbrand
#88. He had his hands propped behind his head in that universal guy gesture, looking casual, relaxed and very male. Tristan
Alessandra Hazard
#89. The basic idea is simple: All is One. Different religions just find different ways of expressing this universal truth.
Rudy Rucker
#90. You should know both the universal and the personal, the realm of forms and the freedom to not cling to them. The forms of the world have their place, but in another way, there is nothing there. To be free, we need to respect both of these truths.
Ajahn Chah
#91. The reading of the ancients awakened new delight in the melody and beauty of language: men became intoxicated with words. The practice of rhetoric was universal and it quickly coloured all literature. It
George Herbert Mair
#92. There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?
Jack Kerouac
#93. Life is the courier of the universal brilliance. Elysse
Elysse Poetis
#94. I enjoy learning about different periods and people, and then taking what's universal about the human condition and seeing where it matches up. No matter where you are, certain things unite everybody.
Laura Linney
#95. The religious way is the deep way, the way that sees what physical eyes alone fail to see, the intangibles of the heart of every phenomenon. The religious way is the way that touches universal relationships; that goes high, wide and deep, that expands the feelings of kinship.
Sophia Lyon Fahs
#96. There is really no spiritual message that I'm trying to convey with my music, it's just a personal thing. I really believe that the more personal we get, in a way, the more universal the implications.
John McLaughlin
#97. I've always wanted to be a real universal artist, one that every type of audience could relate to.
Bryan White
#98. It is necessary to take what is common as our guide; however, though this logic is universal, the many live as if each individual has his own private wisdom.
Heraclitus
#99. There is no 'ultimate goal of therapy.' Thinking there is some ultimate or universal goal of therapy is one of the most fundamental errors of our field. To me, that concept is rather arrogant, as if therapists were some kind of spiritual experts who knew what human beings are supposed to be like.
David D. Burns
#100. Now there are laws in many parts of the world which reflect the best of human nature. These laws treat people touched by HIV with compassion and acceptance. These laws respect universal human rights and they are grounded in evidence.
Shereen El Feki
