74 Elicit Quotes
Following is our list of elicit quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about what is elicit.
Famous Elicit Quotes
[I provoke] the system [to] show its true face ... so that through its own acts of terrorism ... the masses will rise against it. — Ulrike Meinhof
The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. — Jerzy Kosinski
Real education will be to bring out what is in you. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart. — Umberto Eco
Ideas often kindle each other, like electrical sparks. — Friedrich Engels
The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Nothing in the world is so compelling to the emotions as the mind of another human being — Margaret Floy Washburn
True art awakens the Extraordinary Ovation — Hafez
Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. — John Dewey
I want to create an atmosphere that can be consciously plumbed with seeing, like the wordless thought that comes from looking in a fire. — James Turrell
Eloquence is logic on fire. — Lyman Beecher
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate 'apparently ordinary' people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people. — K. Patricia Cross
Thou didst, in strains of eloquence refin'd, Inflame the soul, and captivate the mind. — Phillis Wheatley
Our aim is not merely to make the child understand, and still less to force him to memorize, but so to touch his imagination as to enthuse him to his innermost core. — Maria Montessori
The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Short Elicit Quotes
- Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love. — Lao Tzu
- The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction. — Christopher Lasch
- When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. — Bill Bradley
- The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. — Charles Caleb Colton
- As a viewer, my own work elicits strong emotional reaction from me. — Jim Hodges
- If people think they can elicit from me whatever terms they want, they are mistaken. — Ivanka Trump
- There's no default. Each emotional experience elicits a different, possibly new response. — Brendan Dooling
- Difficulties elicit talents that in more fortunate circumstances would lie dormant. — Horace
- Design work doesn't just satisfy requirements, it elicits them. — Fred Brooks
- Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes. — Mario Bunge
What Is Elicit Quotes
Children ask better questions than adults. "May I have a cookie?" "Why is the sky blue?" and "What does a cow say?" are far more likely to elicit a cheerful response than "Where's your manuscript?" "Why haven't you called?" and "Who's your lawyer?" — Fran Lebowitz
You should let dialogue get as nearly out of control as you can. Characters should say what they say to each other instead of what they mean to say. The worst purpose of dialogue is to elicit information: "You know why we're out on this space station, Carruthers - to save the universe!" — Robert Stone
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. — James Frey
What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving. — Lottie Moon
People Writing About Elicit
| Name | Quotes | Likes |
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 Friedrich Nietzsche |
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 Ulrike Meinhof |
10 | 260 |
 Jerzy Kosinski |
58 | 287 |
![Read quotes by Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]](/images/authors-thumbs/osho-quotes.jpg) Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain] |
42 | 61 |
 Umberto Eco |
279 | 1572 |
 Friedrich Engels |
60 | 1268 |
More Elicit Quotes
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind. — T. D. Jakes
A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good. — Bhumibol Adulyadej
Like sex, evolution elicits equally strong opinions from those who study it professionally and those who consider it so wrong and dangerous that they believe the subject shouldn’t be taught to children. — Daniel Lieberman
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories. — P. L. Travers
The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality. — Jeffrey Tucker
When I was growing up, particularly during puberty in my teen years, I was so miserable because I elicited so much teasing and meanness from my teenage cohorts. — Linda Hunt
It doesn't hurt me. I'm not governed by the fear of what other people say. Events don't elicit feelings; I think beliefs elicit feelings, and I understand what my beliefs are and I know how I am. — Chip Kelly
Superstars strive for approbation; heroes walk alone. Superstars crave consensus; heroes define themselves by the judgment of a future they see it as their task to bring about. Superstars seek success in a technique for eliciting support; heroes pursue success as the outgrowth of inner values. — Henry A. Kissinger
As we have come to view teaching, it begins with an act of reason, continues with a process of reasoning, culminates in performances of imparting, eliciting, involving, or enticing, and is then thought about some more until the process can begin again — Lee S Shulman
The desperate things seem to require attention, the lovely things seem to elicit celebration. If I had to choose, I would go to the awful in the hope that doing something could yield a happier result. — Jenny Holzer
Simple assent to the gospel, divorced from a transforming commitment to the living Christ, is by Biblical standards less than faith, and less than saving, and to elicit only assent of this kind would be to secure only false conversions. — J. I. Packer
Guess what: God created beings not to act in a morality play but to experience what is unfathomable, to elicit what can become, to descend into the darkness of creation and reveal it to him, to mourn and celebrate enigma and possibility. The universe is a whirling dervish, not a hanging judge in robes. — Richard Grossinger
The simultaneous reactions elicited all over the world by the reading of newspaper dispatches about the same events create, as it were, a common mental pulse beat for the whole of civilized mankind. — Christian Lous Lange
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant. — Horace
Gluten free pizza elicits the same response at a hollywood party that a pile of cocaine did in the 80's. — Natasha Leggero
The resemblance of ... the alien abduction of 'experiencers' to the contracts described by our own volunteers is undeniable. How can anyone doubt, after reading our accounts... that DMT elicits 'typical' alien encounters? — Rick Strassman
Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs. — Cecil Beaton
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. — Charles Caleb Colton
Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce. — P. J. O'Rourke
In brainwashing and the eliciting of confessions, the physiological importance of inducing a sense of guilt and conflict can hardly be over emphasized. — William Sargant
When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos. — Ursula Goodenough
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. — John Buchan
It is notorious that no war between countries elicits as much hate and cruelty as civil war, in which there is no lack of acquaintance between the two warring sides. — Erich Fromm
Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things for you. The Republicans need to get back to being the party that elicits unreasonable shrieking from their opponents. Not the other way around. — Jonah Goldberg
How much simpler it would be all around if you could put your mind in a cast, like a broken ankle, and elicit murmurings of sympathy from other people instead of skepticism (“You can’t really be feeling as bad as all that”) and in some cases outright hostility (“Maybe if you stopped thinking about yourself so much ”). — Daphne Merkin
All of life's experiences are teachers in some sense, challenging us to grow and evolve. Although the Persecutor certainly provokes a reaction, the Challenger elicits a response by encouraging the Creator to acquire new knowledge, skill, or insight. Both roles provoke change, but in different ways. — David Emerald Womeldorff
Youll come to see that a man learns nothing from winning. The act of losing, however, can elicit great wisdom. Not least of which is how much more enjoyable it is to win. Its inevitable to lose now and again. The trick is not to make a habit of it. — Albert Finney
Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor. — Seneca
The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there. — James Buchanan
I don't consciously try to make things difficult as much as I try to make them a little different. I like all kinds of laughs. I tried to make a show that elicit groans, guffaws, chuckles, boos. — Bo Burnham
It is the will of God that we live not only as rational beings, but as "new men" regenerated by the Holy Spirit in Christ. It is His will that we reach out for our inheritance, that we answer His call to be His sons. We are born men without our consent, but the consent to be sons of God has to be elicited by our own free will. — Thomas Merton
I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man. — Liz Phair
Turning something upside-down elicits a reversal of content and pointing a steeple into the ground directs it to hell as opposed to heaven. — Dennis Oppenheim
It's never good to fall in love with someone whom you'd have to stab in the eyeballs to elicit a response. — Sloane Crosley
I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated. — Steven Pinker
Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing so animates writing as someone telling what he thinks or what he does - in his own words. His own words will always be better than your words, even if you are the most elegant stylist in the land. — William Zinsser
Mystery is the art of eliciting unseen things hidden in the shadow of natural ones... and serving to demonstrate as real the things that are not. — Cennino Cennini
Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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