Diffusion Quotes

• The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

  James Madison

  Education, Freedom, Inspirational Life

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Knowledge, Commodity, Increase

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The diffusion of a universalist culture and of a pedagogy of peace appears more than ever to be the path that we must follow for the salvation of all nations on earth.

  Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

  Path, Culture, Earth

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• The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labours of cabinets and foreign offices.

  Richard Cobden

  Freedom, Office, Progress

  Richard Cobden (1870). “Speeches on Questions of Public Policy”, p.228

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• We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

  Matt Blunt

  Stupid, Law, Shadow

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• On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

  Daniel Webster

  Education, People, Institutions

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1856). “Biographical memoir of the public life of Daniel Webster”, p.403

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• The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Art, Writing, Discovery

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.8, Beard Books

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• The widespread diffusion of nuclear weapons would make many nations able, and in some cases also create the pressure, to aggravate an on-going crisis, or even touch off a war between two other powers for purposes of their own.

  Herman Kahn

  War, Aggravation, Two

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• In a government whose distinguishing characteristic should be a diffusion and equalization of its benefits and burdens the advantage of individuals will be augmented at the expense of the community at large.

  Martin Van Buren

  Government, Community, Benefits

  United States. President (1837-1841 : Van Buren), Martin Van Buren (1838). “Message from the President of the United States to the Two Houses of Congress: At the Commencement of the Third Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress”, p.12

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• With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

  Conrad Hall

  Art, Eye, Light

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• Because simplicity isn't the greatest thing in the world, but love.

  Bo Sanchez

  Simplicity, World

  FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from May 18, 2011

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• The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.

  William Hazlitt

  Taste, Improvement

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.344, Delphi Classics

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• Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Communication, Views, Achievement

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1963). “Goethe's world view: presented in his reflections and maxims”

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• This is an age of intellectual sauces, of essence, of distillation. We have conclusions without deductions, abridgments of history and abridgments of science without leading facts. We have animals for literature, Cabinet Encyclopaedias, Family Libraries, Diffusion Societies, and heaven knows what else! What is all this for? Not to add knowledge to the learned, but to tell points to the ignorant, without giving them the trouble to acquire the links. Oh! it is sad work. And the result will be injurious to all classes.

  Benjamin Haydon

  Animal, Essence, Class

  Benjamin Robert Haydon, Frederick Wordsworth Haydon (1876). “Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir”, p.450

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• It belongs to American liberty to separate entirely the institution which has for its object the support and diffusion of religion from the political government.

  Francis Lieber

  Government, Support, Political

  "On Civil Liberty and Self-government".

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• One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential point to other minds. Words may have to be strained into a new sense, and scientific controversies constantly resolve themselves into differences about the meaning of words. On the other hand, a happy nomenclature has sometimes been more powerful than rigorous logic in allowing a new train of thought to be quickly and generally accepted.

  Arthur Schuster

  Powerful, Lying, Science

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• The absorption of oxygen and the elimination of carbon dioxide in the lungs take place by diffusion alone. There is no trustworthy evidence of any regulation of this process on the part of the organism.

  August Krogh

  Science, Oxygen, Regulation

  August Krogh (1977). “Respiratory adaptations, capillary exchange, and reflex mechanisms: proceedings of the August Krogh Centenary Symposium held in Srinagar, Kashmir (India), October 11-15, 1974”

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• The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

  William Hague

  Decision, World, Centre

  "William Hague: 'We have to build new alliances with the emerging powers'". Interview with Andrew Rawnsley, Toby Helm, www.theguardian.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Every one must understand that, whatever be the evil of slavery, it is not increased by its diffusion. Every one familiar with it knows that it is in proportion to its sparseness that it becomes less objectionable. Wherever there is an immediate connexion between the master and slave, whatever there is of harshness in the system is diminished.

  Jefferson Davis

  Evil, Slavery, Masters

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• I think by far the most important bill in our whole code is that for the diffusion of knowlege among the people. no other sure foundation can be devised for the preservation of freedom, and happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Knowledge, Thinking

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.251, Cambridge University Press

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• What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.

  Simon Sinek

  Law, Innovation, Obeying

  Source: advisor.tv

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• I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Educational, Men, Light

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence. Reports and opinions while secretarry of state”, p.263

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• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

  James Madison

  Patriotic, Power, Presidential

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• It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are true.

  Harriet Martineau

  Truth, Suppression, Wide

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.147

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• On the light side everyone thinks they are the most important, that their own understandings, or their group's understandings, are the key. There's a diversity of cultures and opinions, so there is competition, diffusion, and no single focus.

  Carlos Barrios

  Thinking, Keys, Light

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