Orderliness Quotes

• There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Law, Religion, Blind

  Address at Kingsley Hall, delivered 17 October 1931, London

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• Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. As the beams to a house, as the bones to the microcosm of man, so is order to all things.

  Robert Southey

  Peace, Order, Cities

  "The Doctor, Etc".

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• A good system shortens the road to the goal.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Goal, Planning

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• Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

  Deepak Chopra

  Math, Balance And Harmony, Mind

  Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.42, Harmony

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• I am a big believer that orderliness begets wealth.

  Suze Orman

  Wealth, Prosperity, Bigs

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• Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

  William Pollard

  People, Decision, Benefits

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• Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

  Albert Einstein

  Faith, Religious, Men

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• All nature has come to expect from God a sense of orderliness. Whatever God does carries with it His fingerprint. And in the world around us His fingerprint of orderliness is evident to anybody who is honest with the facts. If you look at nature, you will discover a mathematical exactness. Without this precision, the entire world would be in utter confusion. One plus one always equals two no matter what part of the universe you happen to be in. And the laws of nature operate in beautiful harmony, a harmony that is ordered by God Himself.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Beautiful, Law, Two

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• Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

  Henry Adams

  Dream, Nature, Men

  Henry Adams (2015). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.550, BookRix

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• Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Order, Economy, Produce

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• Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Mean, Repose

  Mahatma Gandhi (2011). “The Way to God: Selected Writings from Mahatma Gandhi”, North Atlantic Books

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• The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Men, Order, Principles

  Rudolf Arnheim (1974). “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Disorder and Order”, p.48, Univ of California Press

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• The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

  William Strunk, Jr.

  Simplicity, Style, Way

  william strunk, jr. (1959). “the elements of style”

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• There is no way that we can understand it all. So the heart's response to that mystery is faith - a trust in the fundamental orderliness of the universe.

  Ajahn Amaro

  Heart, Way, Fundamentals

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• When things are in order, if the cause of the orderliness cannot be deduced from the motion of the elements or from the composition of matter, it is quite possibly a cause possessing a mind.

  Johannes Kepler

  Order, Mind, Elements

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• [A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Science, Environmental, Negative

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it create some semblance of order.

  Katherine Paterson

  Order, Grace, Able

  Katherine Paterson (1981). “Gates of excellence: on reading and writing books for children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• The asymmetry of time, the arrow that points from past to future, plays an unmistakable role in our everyday lives: it accounts for why we cannot turn an omelet into an egg, why ice cubes never spontaneously unmelt in a glass of water, and why we remember the past but not the future. And the origin of the asymmetry we experience can be traced all the way back to the orderliness of the universe near the big bang. Every time you break an egg, you are doing observational cosmology.

  Sean M. Carroll

  Time, Past, Arrows

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• Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness.

  Marie-Luise Gothein

  Beauty, Struggle, Design

  Marie-Luise Gothein, Walter P Wright (1979). “History of Garden Art: Originally published in two volumes”, p.18, Gardenvisit.com

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• The habit of saving is itself an education; it fosters every virtue, teaches self-denial, cultivates the sense of order, trains to forethought, and so broadens the mind.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Money, Acceptance, Self

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• The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.

  Rem Koolhaas

  New York, Sex, Squares

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• The work reveals the creator - and as our universe in its vastness, its orderliness, its exquisite detail, tells us something of the One who made it, so a work of fiction, for better or worse, will reveal the writer.

  Katherine Paterson

  Details, Fiction, Vastness

  Katherine Paterson (2001). “The Invisible Child: On Reading and Writing Books for Children”, Dutton Juvenile

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• A company is a multidimensional system capable of growth, expansion, and self-regulation. It is, therefore, not a thing but a set of interacting forces. Any theory of organization must be capable of reflecting a company's many facets, its dynamism, and its basic orderliness. When company organization is reviewed, or when reorganizing a company, it must be loked upon as a whole, as a total system.

  Albert Low

  Self, Organization, Growth

  Albert Low (1976). “Zen and creative management”, Anchor Books

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• (Heinrich von) Kleist would not be a Prussian if his first thought would not have been orderlinessand he would not be a German if he had not placed all his hopes of developing this inner orderliness into education. Education is the secret of life for him as for every German: studying, learning a lot from books, sitting in lectures, keeping notebooks, listening intently to professors.

  Stefan Zweig

  Notebook, Education, Learning

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• It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Remains, Orderly

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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