Ascertained Quotes

Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained. Vladimir Nabokov

Mind Before Complacency State Only Shattered Retrospective Exists Being Ascertained

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense. James Madison

Education Youth Parents Possess Carried He Talents His Afford Expense Whenever Cannot Ascertained Which Public Should Forward

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. George Bernard Shaw

Man Assumptions He His May Ascertained Which Acts Believes Creed

Science has fulfilled her function when she has ascertained and enunciated truth. Thomas Huxley

Truth Science She Ascertained Fulfilled Function Her

In the imperfect records left of the anatomy of the ancient Egyptians, no trace of any knowledge of the spleen can be ascertained. Henry Gray

Knowledge Anatomy Ancient Records Imperfect Trace Left Any Egyptians Ascertained

The Congressman ascertained that the consulate in Havana had numbers to feed the pigs. Erich Leinsdorf

Havana Had Feed Pigs Ascertained Congressman Numbers