Top 1200 Signs And Symbols Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Everybody who flashed the signs of loyalty he took to be loyal. Everybody who flashed the signs of intelligence he took to be intelligent. And so he had failed to see into his daughter, failed to see into his wife, failed to see into his one and only mistress—probably had never even begun to see into himself

Numbers have life; they’re not just symbols on paper.

I believe in status symbols.

It is war now, and armies need symbols.

Symbols are important. It depends on how they're used.

An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms, and, above all, an explicit list of rules explicitly governing the steps that the mathematician may take in going from assumptions to conclusions. No appeal to meaning nor to intuition. Symbols lose their referential powers; inferences become mechanical.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes.

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

If modern art has produced symbols that are unfamiliar, that was only to be expected.

Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.

All things are symbols.

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

Symbols are the language of something invisible spoken in the visible world.

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.

To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal.

I'm not mainly interested in what buildings mean as symbols or vehicles for ideas.

Economists who speak the English tongue are strangely intimidated by mathematical symbols.

Mathematics has no symbols for confused ideas.

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.

I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. You're merchandised, you're a product.

Tree of Liberty: A tree set up by the people, hung with flags and devices, and crowned with a cap of liberty. The Americans of the United States planted poplars and other trees during the war of independence, "as symbols of growing freedom." The Jacobins in Paris planted their first tree of liberty in 1790. The symbols used in France to decorate their trees of liberty were tricoloured ribbons, circles to indicate unity, triangles to signify equality, and a cap of liberty. Trees of liberty were planted by the Italians in the revolution of 1848.

Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common.

Miracles are signs, and like all signs, they are never about themselves; they're about whatever they are pointing toward. Miracles point to something beyond themselves. But to what? To God himself. That's the point of miracles - to point us beyond our world to another world.

What I had thought were signs of a broken educational system - the seemingly random placement of commas, the spastic syntax, the obnoxious overuse of quotation marks, the goofy misspelling of 'Jouralism' - were actually signs of the New Instantaneousness. 'Instant Jouralists' cannot be concerned with punctuation and grammar and spelling. That stuff just 'slows you down.' To be an 'Instant Jouralist,' you have to write as if you were being pursued by a cheetah across the Serengeti.

Memory, faith, and the natural world as both witness to the cycle of human life and healer to a questioning heart are at the core of this lovely and lyrical collection of poems. The weather changes, people come and go from cities and towns, babies are born, grow up and depart from their parents’ arms, but still, the countryside and its rituals sustain the people and creatures who know how to read the signs of the seasons. In these pages, Laura Grace Weldon shares those signs with us; her poems are the fruit of a wonderful harvest.

The Catholic religion doesn't have conspicuous symbols.

We photographers are poets in the language of symbols.

The craft or art of writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for the wordlessness.

Do not cling to the symbols, but get to the inner truth!

The symbols of the self arise from the depths of the body.

You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the convenience stores where Stephen lives in Florida tell the story. Beer, ice, bread and milk are the big come-ons. The order of the words varies, but beer and ice are always two of the top four staples for sale. If we were all taking care of ourselves, wouldn't the convenience stores compete for our dollars with signs that read "Fruit, Vegetables, Bread, Milk"?

All you have to do is close your eyes and wait for the symbols.

But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.

The arithmetical symbols are written diagrams and the geometrical figures are graphic formulas.

My favorite symbols were those which I didn't understand.

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

Symbols need not limit their scope to this pendulum swing of images.

My yachts were, I suppose, outstanding status symbols.

The soul ... may have many symbols with which it reaches toward God.

Love wants to be confirmed with concrete symbols, but recklessness loves instability.

Clothes are signifiers and symbols of how people communicate with each other.

We Sioux spend a lot of time thinking about everyday things which in our minds are mixed up with the spiritual. We see in the world around us many symbols that teach us the meaning of life. We have a saying that the white man sees so little, he must see with only one eye. We see a lot that you no longer notice. You could notice if you wanted to, but you are usually too busy. We Indians live in a world of symbols and images where the spiritual and commonplace are one…We try to understand them not with the head but with the heart

Symbols are specific acts or figures, while myths develop and elaborate these symbols into a story which contains characters and several episodes. The myth is thus more inclusive. But both symbol and myth have the same function psychologically; they are man's way of expressing the quintessence of his experience - his way of seeing his life, his self-image and his relations to the world of his fellow men and of nature - in a total figure which at the same moment carries the vital meaning of this experience.

A person shows signs of clutching on too fast, of being needy, of not hearing the word "no," of jealousy, of guarding you and your freedom. But the signs can be so small they skitter right past you. Sometimes they dance past, looking satiny, something you should applaud. Someone's jealousy can make you feel good. Special. But it's not even about you. It's about a hand that is already gripping. It's about their need, circling around your throat

Status symbols are poor excuses for values.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.

Japanese train signs, station signs, are really representative of the Japanese mind to me, because it always has the station where you are, the station you were previously at, and the station that is the next station. When I came to New York, I was very confused. It just doesn't say where I was and where I was going. But I realized after a while probably most people don't need to know what station you were previously at. But I think it's just some weird Japanese mentality that we need to know, we need to connect the plot.

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

Numbers have life; they're not just symbols on paper.

All women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols.

It does not pay to cherish symbols when the substance lies so close at hand.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, but, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds.

Things are symbols of themselves.

To me, there's two symbols for Team U.S.A.: the national anthem and the American flag.

Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.

The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable.