#isolated

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#accustomed #beings #controlling #events #having

Adam's abduction was our private hell - but it was not an isolated incident. On any given day, any number of children are absent from their homes for diverse and numerous reasons. ↗

— John Walsh

#adam #any #children #day #diverse

Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#build #case #complaints #divorce #how

Language should be an ever developing procedure and not an isolated occurrence. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#ever #isolated #language #occurrence #procedure

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. ↗

— Valerie Solanas

#collection #community #family #isolated #merely

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#competing #curiosities #divorced #facts #isolated

We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional. ↗

— Eva Herzigova

#far #friends #isolated #professional #smart

Sadly, this problem of steroid use is not isolated to baseball. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#isolated #problem #sadly #steroid #use