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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. (Quote by - Sitting Bull)

It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized. (Quote by - Muhammed Iqbal)

It was from them that I learned that hard work in stable surroundings could yield rewards, even if only in infinitesimally small increments. (Quote by - Sidney Altman)

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world. (Quote by - Helen Keller)

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods. (Quote by - Confucius)

Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications. (Quote by - Gary Becker)

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. (Quote by - Peter Straub)

The combination of experience and experimentation will ultimately yield a personal sound. (Quote by - Mark White)

It's wonderful to be back. Back among the mountains that remind us of our vulnerability, our ultimate lack of control over the world we live in. Mountains that demand humility, and yield so much peace in return. (Quote by - Alex Lowe)

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. (Quote by - Marshall McLuhan)

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)

Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that same acre would only graze enough cows to get 165 pounds of meat. (Quote by - Alexandra Paul)

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground. (Quote by - Thomas Jefferson)

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)

The wool of a thousand sheep in good pasture at the least ought to yield fifty marks a year, the wool of two thousand one hundred marks, and so forth, counting by thousands. (Quote by - Robert Grosseteste)

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked. (Quote by - Niccolo Machiavelli)

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter. (Quote by - Thomas Brooks)

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature. (Quote by - James L. Buckley)

One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole. (Quote by - Barbara Hepworth)

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