Contents Quotes

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.

This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.

We are to introduce our people into the life of the Church, which is salvation, that they may grasp its meaning, its contents and purpose, to taste and see how good the Lord is.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.