Shoulders Of Giants Quotes

#1. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.

Isaac Newton

#2. If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. SIR ISAAC NEWTON

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#3. It's easier to reach for the stars when you stand on the shoulders of giants.

C.J. Peters

#4. People say they walk on the shoulders of giants. True, but have you ever walked like one?

Jill Telford

#5. Genius may stand on the shoulders of giants, but it stands alone.

Tom Robbins

#6. Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12
We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.

Leah Price

#7. We see further because we stand on the shoulders of giants.

Hugh Martin

#8. We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

Bernard Of Chartres

#9. We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up, and by their great stature add to ours.

John Of Salisbury

#10. Nachmanovitch writes, "It's great to sit on the shoulders of giants, but don't let the giants sit on your shoulders. There's no room for their legs to dangle!

Todd Henry

#11. If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

Gene Stallings

#12. With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.

John Locke

#13. The practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear but in wonder.

Brian Cox

#14. Scientists do stand on the shoulders of giants, just as do writers. Conversely, in the arts we do make discoveries. We do refine our tools. So I am arguing with, or at least playing with, the idea that art never improves.

Ian McEwan

#15. If you add your hot passion to the cold attitude of another person, it becomes lukewarm. Don't stand on the toes of dwarfs; stand on the shoulders of giants!

Israelmore Ayivor

#16. If I had seen further than others, it's because I stood upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

#17. You have been blessed to stand on the shoulders of giants. Make sure that someone stands on yours as well. This is the only way of human progress.

Chris Matakas

#18. As I go about my work as Premier, I know I stand on the shoulders of giants.

Anna Bligh

#19. Newton said, 'If I have seen further than others, it is because I've stood on the shoulders of giants.' These days we stand on each other's feet!

Richard Hamming

#20. Some say they stand on the shoulders of giants. True. But have they ever tried walking like one?

Jill Telford

#21. And because you can stand on the shoulders of giants, you can accomplish something quickly.

Michael Crichton

#22. If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

#23. F I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

Isaac Newton

#24. China also has moved away from its original status of purely producing basic, what you call, consumer commodities and Chinese companies are moving beyond China to various parts of the world.

Sellapan Ramanathan

#25. We cease to be so angry once we cease to be so hopeful

Seneca.

#26. As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

Quentin Tarantino

#27. That rarest gift to Beauty, Common Sense!

George Meredith

#28. It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants. It has also been said that the software industry is an example of midgets standing on the toes of other midgets.

Alan Cooper

#29. In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side-by-side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

Gerald Holton

#30. Some breakfast cereals only come into their own as children's party treats: what are cornflakes and Coco Pops for, if not to clump together with melted chocolate and spoon into a cupcake holder?

Yotam Ottolenghi

#31. Whether we are happy depends on inner harmony, not on the controls we are able to exert over the great forces of the universe

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#32. Of course, REAL zombies never get the giggles when they look at each other ...

Bill Watterson

#33. I see you all know who I am," Hercules said. "Not that I'd expect anything else. After all, I am the Hercules."
My brow rose.
Seth snorted.
"Hercules is a dick." Apollo stated.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#34. It's hopeless," he went on. "We no longer have the learning of the ancients, the age of giants is past!"
"We are dwarfs," William admitted, "but dwarfs who stand on the shoulders of those giants, and small though we are, we sometimes manage to see farther on the horizon than they.

Umberto Eco

#35. At least be a nice lesbian or you're going to give the rest a bad rap.

Terry McMillan

#36. The earth is my altar, the sky is my dome, mind is my garden, the heart is my home and I'm always at home - yea, I'm always at Om.

Eden Ahbez

#37. Real equality is immensely difficult to achieve, it needs continual revision and monitoring of distributions. And it does not provide buffers between members, so they are continually colliding or frustrating each other.

Mary Douglas

#38. The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant's shoulders to mount on.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#39. We make such terrible mistakes with visual choices about beauty.

Marina Abramovic

#40. I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother was a magnificent person and an outstanding actor.

Joaquin Phoenix