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The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

Quote by Ivan Pavlov about success, numbers

I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and...

Quote by Li Peng about stability, evolution, progress, future, peace, human imperfections, world

Early in the morning, I fell in love with the girl that later on became my wife. At that time, we were so naive. I wanted to charm her, so I read her Capital by Marx. I thought somehow she would be convinced by the strength of his criticism about...

Quote by Shimon Peres about love, charm, criticism, wife, thinking, time

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Quote by Richard Burton about teaching, man

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

Quote by Thomas Stearns Eliot about literature, religion

I am convinced that the unwritten knowledge scattered among men of different callings surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth has yet to be recorded

Quote by Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz about knowledge, wealth, books, man

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Quote by Irving Layton about opinion, intelligence, contentment, things

I do not in the stereotype of weak and strong sex. I am convinced that women have pushed the world forward.

Quote by Bedros Horasangian about woman, sex, world