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Currents Quotes

Flow, literal and figurative.

Currents get used two ways here: literal electric currents from early experimenters marveling at coils and frequency, and the political currents that quietly reshape a whole era.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

Quotes by Agnes Repplier

The political currents that topped the global agenda in the late 20th century - revolutionary nationalism, feminism and ethnic struggle - place culture at their heart.

Quotes by Terry Eagleton

The first lesson my kids got about the ocean was to respect it. You can never turn your back on the ocean when you're dealing with tides and currents - factors beyond your control. You have to be the CEO...

Quotes by Summer Sanders

I had to learn to navigate the political and religious currents in a state where Mormonism dominates despite not being Mormon.

Quotes by Ron Stallworth

Always Quotes

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

Quotes by Richard Wagner

As in nature, all is ebb and tide, all is wave motion, so it seems that in all branches of industry, alternating currents - electric wave motion - will have the sway.

Quotes by Nikola Tesla

When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else,...

Quotes by Nikola Tesla

What amplifies the transformational power ahead is the confluence of two major technological currents today: the universal access to mobile computing and the pervasive use of social networks.

Quotes by Michael J. Saylor

In all warm-blooded creatures, which are the highest evolved and have feelings, passions and emotions, which reach outward into the world with desire, which may be said to really live in the fuller meaning of the term and not merely...

Quotes by Max Heindel

Art Quotes

Imagine that foreign development is not done to our standards and a spill occurs. Neither geology nor ocean currents will respect our national boundaries.

Quotes by Lisa Murkowski

The batteries are gradually becoming charged, and if the prudence of the government does not provide an outlet for the currents that are accumulating, some day the spark will be generated.

Quotes by Jose Rizal

A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of...

Quotes by John Bates Clark

I like the songs to appear very simple and to flow by without any kind of hiccup, but there has to be this impression of other currents underneath. Like if the songs aren't, on some level, multidimensional, we lose interest...

Quotes by Gillian Welch

I hope I may have succeeded in presenting to you, however imperfectly, the currents of thought due to the work of the immortal Darwin which have helped to make anthropology what it is at the present time.

Quotes by Franz Boas

Beautiful Quotes

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

Quotes by Emma Bonino

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Quotes by Carl Jung

There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spiral of currents created by a high pressure system of air currents. A spinning soup, so to speak, is made of what exists...

Quotes by Brandon Boyd

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

Quotes by Anish Kapoor

Frequently Asked Questions

What kind of currents do these quotes cover?
Two kinds: literal electric currents from early experimenters fascinated by coils and frequency, and political currents like nationalism or feminism that shaped whole eras.
Why would someone search for currents quotes?
The dual meaning attracts both science-minded readers curious about electricity and those looking for language around shifting political or cultural moods.
Is there a quote from an early electrical experimenter?
Yes, one describes high-frequency coils producing beautiful brush effects, a firsthand account from the early days of studying electric currents.
Does the page connect currents to politics directly?
It does, naming revolutionary nationalism, feminism, and ethnic struggle as political currents that shaped culture at the end of the 20th century.
What other quotes touch on this theme?
See Art for more on culture, or Being for a broader reflection on change over time.

For more on invisible forces at work, see Art on culture, or Being for a broader reflection on change.