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Definite Quotes

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.

"First Principles", Chapter XVI. Par. 138; also Chapter XVII. Par. 145, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 241-42, 1922.

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

All the evolution we know of proceeds from the vague to the definite.

Charles Sanders Peirce, Kenneth Laine Ketner (1992). “Reasoning and the logic of things: the Cambridge conferences lectures of 1898”, Harvard Univ Pr

With definite goals you release your own power, and things start happening.

Zig Ziglar (2010). “See You at the Top”, p.157, Pelican Publishing

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

James Mark Baldwin (1913). “History of Psychology: A Sketch and an Interpretation”

Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1850). “The Scarlet Letter”, p.213

The power of purity-it is a definite power.

Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1458, Manonmani Publishers