Top 602 Foundations Quotes & Sayings

We lay foundations that will need further development.

The genetic you and the neural you aren't alternatives to the conscious you. They are its foundations.

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Science is wonderful at destroying metaphysical answers, but incapable of providing substitute ones. Science takes away foundations without providing a replacement. Whether we want to be there or not, science has put us in the position of having to live without foundations. It was shocking when Nietzsche said this, but today it is commonplace; our historical position-and no end to it is in sight-is that of having to philosophise without 'foundations'.

School libraries are the foundations of our culture – not luxuries.

Scripts are what matter. If you get the foundations right and then you get the right ingredients on top, you stand a shot... but if you get those foundations wrong, then you absolutely don't stand a shot. It's very rare-almost never-that a good film gets made from a bad screenplay.

I think theater communities in cities can form really strong foundations.

Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure.

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.

Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

I learned that public service is a privilege that must be based on moral foundations.

I have no salary from the Lugar Center. Essentially, the moneys we have received has been from foundations.

Without proper foundations, there can be no fashion.

Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations.

The foundations of national morality must be laid in private families.

The proof of evolution lies in those adaptations that arise from improbable foundations.

I think more and more foundations are putting resources into food activism. But I think that given the state of the economy, foundations won't be giving as much in general. For me it's about working with these existing institutions in communities that people already go to, that people trust, that they know, and determining how best they can play a role in the creation of local food systems and address the ills that are right around them in the community.

This art of participating in happiness is one of the foundations if you want to be happy.

Humbleness, forgiveness, clarity and love are the dynamics of freedom. They are the foundations of authentic power.

I consider what I do on Deadspin to be based in the foundations of journalism, yes, based on the foundations of journalism that I have been trained and that I certainly use when I write for GQ and The New York Times and so on. Certainly, I think the language can be a little looser on the web, but I am held to the same standards and accuracy everyone else is.

When one considers our nation's educational foundations - Harvard, Yale, Princeton and most of our respected institutions were originally Christian - it becomes evident why we, as Christians, maintain a passion about remaining true to the foundations of Scripture.

When the jury came in, it didn't just disappoint me it shook the foundations of my beliefs, it shook the foundations of my beliefs in the justice system, in human beings, in my abilities and judgement and in my sense of reality. It just blew me away emotionally and psychologically.

It’s a beautiful, distinctive art, and shoes are like the foundations. If the foundations aren’t right, the building won’t stand upright, and if a woman’s balance isn’t right, nothing else is.

I'm really happy that I had the foundations of knowing where I came from.

Even theories must have foundations.

Without foundations, there can be no fashion.

Foundations are the new Birkin bags. Everyone who is anyone has one. Giving is now chic.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.

The criminal conduct of Hillary Clinton threatens the foundations of democracy.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Vary the pace... is one of the foundations of all good acting.

The foundations of the world will be shaky until the moral props are restored.

We can build upon foundations anywhere if they are well and firmly laid.

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Insanity consists of building major structures upon foundations which do not exist.

We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law.

Since its inception, our Nation has stood on the foundations of compassion and justice.

The foundations of justice are that on one shall suffer wrong; then, that the public good be promoted.

The separation of sex from emotion is at the very foundations of Western culture and civilization.

The breeder can indeed lay the foundations of a good and serviceable dog but the trainer must see to it that he brings to their highest possible development, the physical and mental foundations already laid and thus his is the more grateful task.

No light privilege is it to have a hand in building up the moral life of these new communities; no common honour surely to help to lay side by side with the foundations of their free political institutions the broad and deep foundations of the Church of God.

There is something fundamentally antidemocratic about relinquishing control of the public education policy agenda to private foundations run by society's wealthiest people; when the wealthiest of these foundations are joined in common purpose, they represent an unusually powerful force that is beyond the reach of democratic institutions.

Foundations to be reliable must always be unshakable.

Success on the field must be underpinned by solid foundations off it.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

Beauty, delicacy and position-these were the foundations of courtly equestrianism

I think, charitable foundations are, in general, a good thing.

Vary the pace. ... it is one of the foundations of all good acting.

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.

Behold how Christ is the foundation of the church and the apostles are the foundations! Christ is by a figure of speech - antonomastice - the foundation because the edifice of the church begins from him and is finished in him and through him. But the prophets and apostles are the foundations because their authority bears up our weakness.

We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.

My preparation and my routine are the foundations to my success.

I tell fundamentalists that there is no question of them attacking our Republic's foundations.