#without

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#bird #enable #facts #fly #man

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, must accompany the stages of man's onward progress. The faculty of doubting and questioning, without which those of comparison and judgment would be useless, is itself a divine prerogative of the reason. ↗

— Albert Pike

#comparison #discovery #divine #doubt #doubting

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#change #could #functions #human #meanings

Why cannot we correct the baneful passions, without weakening the good? ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#correct #good #passions #weakening #why

I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#being #cannot #consent #force #four

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#ceasing #constant #constant state #even #god

Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#give #love #love is #pure #pure love

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#horror #impress #mind #power #reality

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all. ↗

— Henri Poincare

#certainty #even #far #foresee #than

There's something so romantic about being broke in New York. You gotta do it. You have to live there once without any money, and then you have to live there when you have money. Let me tell you, of the two, the latter is far better. ↗

— Amy Poehler

#any #being #being broke #better #broke