basis Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about basis.
“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
- Arthur Erickson
“Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.”
- Garrett Hardin
“Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.”
- George Santayana
“When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.”
- Alexei Navalny
“All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.”
- Pierre de Coubertin
“The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.”
- George Washington
“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
- Oscar Wilde
“You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.”
- Lawrence Summers
“Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of the adaptation we see in the structure of the organic world. That was a great advance in the knowledge of living nature.”
- Trofim Lysenko