Top 561 Derived Quotes & Sayings

It is not from nature, but from education and habits, that our wants are chiefly derived.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

There are life lessons that can be derived from reality television.

Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold.

The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.

Arguments derived from probabilities are idle.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

A lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

1 + 1 = 2. Everything else is derived.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

Hegel's theory of recognition is basically derived from Fichte, who is its real author.

What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes.

All machinery is derived from nature, and is founded on the teaching and instruction of the revolution of the firmament.

There is no great fun, satisfaction, or joy derived from doing something that's easy.

The mark of a truly civilized man is confidence in the strength and security derived from the inquiring mind.

I believe this: There is a lot of discipline to be derived from freedom.

What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

It is through cooperation, rather than conflict, that your greatest successes will be derived.

Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.

I believe all Americans are born with certain inalienable rights. As a child of God, I believe my rights are not derived from the constitution. My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist. They were given to me and each of my fellow citizens by our creator, and they represent the essence of human dignity.

The Kassideans or Assideans...arose either during the Captivity or soon after the restoration...The Essenians were, however, undoubtedly connected with the Temple (of Solomon), as their origin is derived by the learned Scalier, with every appearance of truth, from the Kassideans, a fraternity of Jewish devotees, who, in the language of Laurie, had associated together as 'Knights of the Temple of Jerusalem.'...From the Essenians Pythagoras derived much, if not all, of the knowledge and the ceremonies with which he clothed the esoteric school of his philosophy.

I've been a Fellow in a number of companies: Xerox, Apple, Disney, HP. There are certain similarities because all the Fellows programs were derived from IBM's, which itself was derived from the MIT 'Institute Professor' program.

A colleague saw the same model-calibrating the elasticity of demand facing a Cournot oligopolist as a function of the number of firms in the industry--described at the University of Chicago and at M.I.T. A Chicago economist derived the formula and said, "Look at how few firms you need to get close to infinite elasticities and perfect competition." An M.I.T. economist derived the same formula and said, "Look at how large n has to be before you get anywhere close to an infinite elasticity and perfect competition."

The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.

Human dignity ... is derived from a sense of independence.

The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.

The fruit derived from labor is the sweetest of pleasures.

I derived my strength from daily mass and communion.

If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you're always going to be disappointed.

I have derived enormous confidence from being a husband and father.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

The movie wasn't really derived from Dark Shadows - they developed a whole new script for that particular one.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.

Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience.

It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.

We need common-sense judges who understand our rights were derived from God

Since the traditional recorded-music business models have drastically changed, there is truly diminished income derived from recorded music by artists - both current and catalog. The touring industry has become much more important as a majority revenue stream and the ancillary fan experiences and promotions that may be derived from it.

In the ideal State laws are few and simple, because they have been derived from certainties. In the corrupt State laws are many and confused, because they have been derived from uncertainties.

What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honour, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience.

It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge.

All law is from God, not from man. So, all laws are derived from the divine text, or the Koran.

Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.

All learning is derived from things previously known.

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.

If one introduces the concept of energy of an earthquake then that is a theoretically derived quantity.

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse.

Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object.

The philosophy of the wisest man that ever existed, is mainly derived from the act of introspection.

I don't know who you would blame for this, whether Ricardo or others, but we created a fictitious economic theory to praise a rentier or rent-derived, interest-derived capitalism that countered productive forces within the economy.

Intelligence is derived from two words

True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring.

But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey.

All the distinctive features and superiority of our republican institutions are derived from the teachings of Scripture.