Unaltered Quotes

#1. The real path to natural farming requires that a person know what unaltered nature is, so that he or she can instinctively understand what needs to be done - and what must not be done - to work in harmony with its processes.

Masanobu Fukuoka

#2. The ancient superficial idea of the uniform and progressive growth of the human personality has remained unaltered, and the erroneous belief has persisted that it is the duty of the adult to fashion the child according to the pattern required by society.

Maria Montessori

#3. For when people leave our company in our time we are never certain of seeing them again, or seeing them unaltered.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. The function of a nutrient is to become transmuted, not to leave unaltered traces.

Idries Shah

#5. When friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, these only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope, nor deserted sorrow.

Washington Irving

#6. The ancient ritual of the earth; ploughing and planting, reaping and threshing. The fundamental business remains unaltered; it is only the methods and tools that science is changing.

Patience Strong

#7. it is possible to survive this but not unaltered, and you will carry these men with you through all the nights of your life.

Emily St. John Mandel

#8. The history of institutions is often a history of deception and illusions; for their virtue depends on the ideas that produce and on the spirit that preserves them, and the form may remain unaltered when the substance has passed away.

Lord Acton

#9. I quoted to him what I remembered of Charles Darwin: "'Judging by the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity ... '"
"Darwin was right," Nebogipfel said gently.

Stephen Baxter

#10. At all events, I do not mean to leave it unaltered.

James Branch Cabell

#11. The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

Lajos Kossuth

#12. Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Thomas Mann

#13. Music strikes the ear as a perfectly undisturbed uniform sound which remains unaltered as long as it exists.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#14. Our minds thus grow in spots; and like grease spots, the spots spread. But we let them spread as little as possible: we keep unaltered as much of our old knowledge, as many of our old prejudices and beliefs, as we can.

James Truslow Adams

#15. There is a continuity in our lives - a strain of music that flows through it all, unaltered by death or pain. It is true that in the face of pain and death, we are very small. But in the face of life and memory and love, even death is very small.

Yael Shahar

#16. It is often the case with finer natures, that when the fire of the spirit dies out with increasing age, the power of the intellect is unaltered or increased.

Margaret Gatty

#17. Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Aristotle.

#18. Judging from the past, we may safely infer that not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

Charles Darwin

#19. On Titan the molecules that have been raining down like manna from heaven for the last 4 billion years might still be there largely unaltered deep-frozen awaiting the chemists from Earth

Carl Sagan

#20. The basic urge toward mysticism is never, in the unaltered man, clear enough to be recognized for what it is.

Idries Shah

#21. The form of institutions and philosophies may change; but the substance that underlies them remains indestructible, because the nature of humanity remains unaltered.

Aldous Huxley

#22. Enlightenment is the unaltered state of consciousness

Adyashanti

#23. He who accepts the unaltered philosophy of another is as ludicrous as he who donshis neighbor's hat, and infinitely more ridiculous.

Paulette Goddard

#24. What, no Star Wars?"
Solo sighs. "I wanted to bring the original, unaltered Episode IV, in which my namesake shoots first, as our Lord and savior intended."
"Why didn't you?"
"I only have it on VHS, and my dad's old VHS player broke halfway through the summer.

Jeff Garvin

#25. See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

James Daly

#26. A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.

Sebastian Junger

#27. Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out?

John Kenneth Galbraith

#28. Humbling as it may be, for all our vaunted brain power, humans emerge as nothing special in the sensory sweepstakes. Our senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, and touch are middling, at best.

Jonathan Balcombe

#29. But the truth is that I never had to search for a role model. I was the son of George Bush.

George W. Bush