Rudiments Quotes

#1. You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.

Larry Wall

#2. Now that they were no longer half-numbed with starvation, they had time both for leisure and for the first rudiments of thought.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. The first Rudiments of Morality, broach'd by skilful Politicians, to render Men useful to each other as well as tractable, were chiefly contrived that the Ambitious might reap the more Benefit from, and govern vast Numbers of them with the greater Ease and Security.

Bernard De Mandeville

#4. For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

Aristotle.

#5. Once the rudiments of loyalty are in place, the ambitious have been inclined to work with them to promote their own political advancement, and they have availed themselves of the symbols of loyalty to mobilize popular support for their own personal ends.

Michael Waller

#6. Behind great discovery three values are the rudiments; inspiration , motivation and determination. To be a succesful general , you must be inspired, motivated and determined .

Osunsakin Adewale

#7. Tarrasch's 'dogmas' are not eternal truisms, but merely instructional material presented in an accessible and witty form, those necessary rudiments from which one can begin to grasp the secrets of chess ...

Garry Kasparov

#8. He wasn't such a bad fellow after all. The rudiments of self-improvement and the intention to achieve it were definitely present.

Walter Moers

#9. We've created a multitrillion-dollar edifice for dispensing the medical equivalent of lottery tickets - and have only the rudiments of a system to prepare patients for the near certainty that those tickets will not win. Hope is not a plan, but hope is our plan.

Atul Gawande

#10. It would be so nice if those who oppose evolution would take a tiny bit of trouble to learn the merest rudiments of what it is that they are opposing.

Richard Dawkins

#11. An Aristotle was but the rubbish of an Adam, and Athens but the rudiments of Paradise.

Robert South

#12. See that your children are properly educated in the rudiments of their mother tongue, and then let them proceed to higher branches of learning..

Brigham Young

#13. Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.

P. J. O'Rourke

#14. Choosing Luther and Calvin instead of the spiritual reformers who were their contemporaries, Protestant Europe got the kind of theology it liked. But it also got, along with other unanticipated by-products, the Thirty Years' War, capitalism and the first rudiments of modern Germany. If

Aldous Huxley

#15. The battle was first waged over the right of the Negro to be classed as a human being with a soul; later, as to whether he had sufficient intellect to master even the rudiments of learning; and today it is being fought out over his social recognition.

James Weldon Johnson

#16. I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females.

Saint Augustine

#17. Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Augustine Of Hippo

#18. When I understood the rudiments of what nanotech was all about, I knew I wanted to participate.

Bernard Marcus

#19. He showed me the rudiments of electronics, and I got very interested in that. Even more interesting were the trips to scavenge for parts.

Walter Isaacson

#20. Dreams are rudiments
Of the great state to come. We dream what is
About to happen.

Philip James Bailey

#21. And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.

Albrecht Durer

#22. When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.

John Phillips

#23. We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.

Eric Hoffer

#24. The man comes closer. I recognise him. It's Johannes, who teaches rudiments and solfege at the local school. I raise my hand in the notes for greeting and he carves out the response. So crisp and clear I can't help feeling the implied correction of my slumped tones.

Anna Smaill

#25. Although the rudiments of snobbery are there, its finer developments are basically alien to the Australian soul - that is, if Australians have a soul; many people believe that they are too matter-of-fact and down-to-earth to have such fancy commodities.

George Mikes

#26. Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

Travis Barker

#27. The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

Brett Weston

#28. Love the animals: God gave them the rudiments of thought and an untroubled joy.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#29. Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

Alexis Soyer

#30. Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.

Monica Johnson

#31. A party is a slightly artificial event where one learns the rudiments of human behavior at its most admirable: speaking when spoken to, looking somebody in the eye, shaking hands and being friendly under duress.

Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

#32. For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments of the perfect animals.

Marcello Malpighi

#33. Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#34. It is only with the best judges that the highest works of art would lose none of their honor by being seen in their rudiments.

John Frederick Boyes

#35. I understood the therapists were trying to rebuild Paul's vocabulary, beginning wit the rudiments, but Paul found it taxing, boring, and disturbingly condescending. His loss of language didn't mean he was any less a grown-up with adult feelings, experiences, worries, and problems. [p. 144]

Diane Ackerman