Denis Diderot Quotes

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

Denis Diderot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 5, 1713 - July 31, 1784

Topics

NatureKnowledgeReflectionFacts

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

Joe Biden

FootballMeMomGradesSemesterOut

The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.

John Cameron Mitchell

ForgivenessMyselfMeFindingMercy

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

PositiveThoughtsSurviveNegative

'Guild Wars 2' is a wider world in that we have a lot of different mechanics available for storytelling. We have our personal story, the story of you, which is tailored for your character. You answer some basic questions; you make some decisions early on, and that follows through.

Jeff Grubb

CharacterWorldStoryQuestionsYou

The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.

Sun Tzu

BattleTempleWhoGeneralManyWins

I didn't have any knowledge of the music industry when I first got to L.A., and I really didn't know on a creative level what I wanted to sound like, so I had to do a lot of experimenting. It led to a spiral of depression and being broke.

Skylar Grey

MusicKnowledgeDepressionCreative

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

Tony Orlando

KnowledgeBetterUnderstandingYou

In all honesty, I don't really know how to feel sexy.

Mollie King

HonestySexyFeelKnowHowReally

I should be, right now, a normal 17-year-old sitting in class in high school. Instead, I'm recording, and it's so exciting for me. I can't imagine anything I'd rather be doing right now.

Daya

SchoolMeHigh SchoolDoingSitting

As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.

Deborah Sampson

RespectSucceedWishesWorthyMay

Americans who have travelled and who have English friends know we are not necessarily all baddies, but I think that seeing us being so incessantly nasty on screen has a drip, drip, drip effect on the rest of them.

David Warner

RestThinkFriendsSeeingKnowDrip

Bands should definitely pay some dues and go through it, go to small clubs, build a fan base, all that kind of stuff, because it's not real, otherwise.

Brian Bell

SmallGoKindBuildRealPay

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