Famous quotes containing the words operation, continue and/or hope:
“You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don’t have, at the back of your minds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“We know it only too well: if we are to preserve culture we must continue to create it.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“The love of new acquaintance comes not so much from being weary of what we had before, or from any satisfaction there is in change, as from the distaste we feel in being too little admired by those that know us too well, and the hope of being more admired by those that know us less.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)