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Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.

The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

Development does not start with goods; it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.

There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

The spiritual thirst that is latent in everybody can never come to a place of fulfillment unless people begin to think of each other as potential brothers and sisters.

Nature does nothing in vain. Therefore, it is imperative for persons to act in accordance with their nature and develop their latent talents, in order to be content and complete.

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

States have two kinds of power: latent power and military power.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

Life is the unfolding of the latent capacities of the soul.

You have to be aware of all the latent possibilities that give a work its special character - its atmosphere, its moods, its contrasts.

Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state.

In dreams, through longings, we can see— All latent in the dust of gold These forests that perhaps could be— But that will never, ever, grow.

There's always a latent or inferred image in my writing. And I can almost always assume if I do a drawing that it will eventually have text.

In our view, derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction carrying dangers that, while latent, are potentially lethal.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom." Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time

My last page is always latent in my first; but the intervening windings of the way become clear only as I write.

What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Vermeer's woman reading a letter is as full of latent or subliminal kitsch as Tolstoy's War and Peace.

The power of the Plus Factor is potential but it is not self-activating. It is latent in human beings and will remain latent until it is activated.

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Water is the key to life, but in frozen form, it is a latent force. And when it vanishes, Earth becomes Mars.

The worrying thing is there's so much latent hatred of the guy [Donald Trump] and this guy isn't even president yet.

I must dedicate my life to teaching my people, for only education would make their lot less bitter, their latent power more strong.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

No matter what his position or experience in life, there is in everyone more latent than developed ability; far more unused than used power.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man; and we see them everywhere brought into different degrees of activity, according to the different circumstances of civil society.

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

There is probably no heterosexual alive who is not preoccupied with his latent homosexuality.

For my own part I am persuaded that everything advances by an unchangeable law through the eternal constitution and association of latent causes, which have been long before predestined.

Latent genius is but a presumption. Everything that can be, is bound to come into being, and what never comes into being is nothing.

A day will come when beings, now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins, shall stand upon Earth as a footstool and laugh, and reach out their hands amidst the stars.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

Make yourself an efficient spark plug, igniting the latent energy of those about you.

Does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?

all the categories which we employ to describe conscious mental acts, such as ideas, purposes, resolutions, and so on, can be applied tothese latent states.

No tempting form of error is without some latent charm derived from truth.

Good is latent in every living thing and simply needs to be called into active expression through the gracious application of respect, sympathetic understanding, gentleness and love.

One of the greatest of a great man's qualities is success; 't is the result of all the others; 't is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.

Life is not a set campaign, but an irregular work, and the main forces in it are not overt resolutions, but latent and half-involuntary promptings.

Truth can arrive within the story and ride latent - a bit incognito - within a story, and people are more prone to receive it.

I use images as signifiers that point to layers of history, lost communities or a latent collective whispering within a certain context.

There is no stronger test of a person's character than power and authority, exciting as they do every passion, and discovering every latent vice.

Philosophy alone can boast (and perhaps it is no more than the boast of philosophy), that her gentle hand is able to eradicate from the human mind the latent and deadly principle of fanaticism.

Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.