Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success."
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Application
54 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Edwin Louis Cole
Author, Speaker
"Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Learn diligence before speedy execution."
Theodore Roosevelt
Politician, Author
"You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law."
John Calvin
Theologian, Reformer
"Christ's intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation."
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"Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application."
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"If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science."
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"Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it."
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"Slits in nothingness are not very easy to paint."
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"You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application."
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"Algebra applies to the clouds."
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"someone was telling me that no more applications were being accepted for the position of God."
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"The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it."
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"Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there."
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"Humility is practical application of knowledge."
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"Application of humility is service."
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"Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end."
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"If you're familiar with a principle you don't have to be familiar with all of its applications."
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"The only skills I have the patience to learn are those that have no real application in life."
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"What signs fail to express, their application shows. What signs slur over, their application says clearly."
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