Top 207 Latent Quotes & Sayings

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

If you don't fix latent failures in your system, you're asking for trouble.

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.

Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state.

A poet is one who can call forth the good latent in the human beast.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.

Silence and reserve suggest latent power. What some men think has more effect than what others say.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

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

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

Every person has the latent ability to read minds and influence the physical world without touching it, but they don't have the ability to connect with the power source.

I think I have serious latent Catholic guilt issues.

Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

There's a huge latent market for software development that's just flat-out honest.

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

Opportunities? They are all around us ... There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that will never, ever, grow.

The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.

Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

But heat can also be produced by the friction of liquids, in which there could be no question of changes in structure, or of the liberation of latent heat.

Just as a new scientific discovery manifests something that was already latent in the order of nature, and at the same time is logically related to the total structure of the existing science, so the new poem manifests something that was already latent in the order of words.

Science regards man as an aggregation of atoms temporarily united by a mysterious force called the life-principle. To the materialist the only difference between a living and a dead body is, that in the one case that force is active, in the other latent. When it is extinct or entirely latent, the molecules obey a superior attraction, which draws them asunder and scatters them through space. This dispersion must be death, if it is possible to conceive such a thing as death where the very molecules of the dead body manifest an intense vital energy.

Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

It’s often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn’t it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.

My mother took me to a psychiatrist when I was fifteen because she thought I was a latent homosexual. There was nothing latent about it.

Egypt has great potential because of the latent power of its human capital.

It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.