Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive.
James Anthony Froude

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras

The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
James J. Gibson

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.
Thorstein Veblen

The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
George Bancroft

The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests.
Andrew Jackson

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
Amelia Barr

The law is not thrust upon man; it rests deep within him, to waken when the call comes.
Martin Buber

The man of the house can destroy the pleasure of the household, but he cannot make it. That rests with the woman, and it is her greatest privilege.
Arthur Helps

The merit of a democratic regime rests on one's continual willingness to exchange views, and to compete on the basis of individual merit and capacities.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

The possibility of saying anything about a thing rests on the assumption that it preserves its identity, or continues to be the same thing in the respect described, that it will behave in future situations as it has in past.
Frank Knight

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
Michael Schudson

The Ten Commandments have never been replaced as the moral basis upon which society rests.
Edwin Louis Cole

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.
Russell Lynes

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Tom Wolfe

There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.
Jose Eduardo Dos Santos

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Martha Graham

Thou hast created us for Thyself, and our heart is not quiet until it rests in Thee.
Saint Augustine

To my thinking, this: - that the Priestly Code rests upon the result which is only the aim of Deuteronomy.
Julius Wellhausen