622 Quotes About Praise

But then again, the dead are often easier to praise than the living.

You should have a praise in your mouth, if not you must be death.

{Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier's execution during the French Revolution}Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

The Lord is great.The Lord is gracious.

Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.

During the first half of the present century we had an Alexander von Humboldt, who was able to scan the scientific knowledge of his time in its details, and to bring it within one vast generalization. At the present juncture, it is obviously very doubtful whether this task could be accomplished in a similar way, even by a mind with gifts so peculiarly suited for the purpose as Humboldt's was, and if all his time and work were devoted to the purpose.

Some of the men who we are openly praising are secretly sleeping with their own daughters … without their consent.

Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family.