Fruitful Quotes

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

While we believe there are fruitful opportunities to update and improve old rules, we do not want to set up a review process that could create a litigation morass.

The moral and social aspiration proper to American life is, of course, the aspiration vaguely described by the word democratic; and the actual achievement of the American nation points towards an adequate and fruitful definition of the democratic ideal.

Give me the fruitful error any time, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. You can keep your sterile truth for yourself.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, 'Be fruitful and multiply,' but not in those words.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

Material blessings, when they pay beyond the category of need, are weirdly fruitful of headache.

The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.