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philosophy stop
Our philosophy was to not let her get the ball, and we did. If she got the ball, we didn't want to let her get it off, and we did. We had no one who could stop her. Tony Rose
philosophy butterfly wish
Well, I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
philosophy answers may
A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy. B. F. Skinner
philosophy eye love-freedom
This is my philosophy: I prefer to stay out of the public eye. I love freedom. Bidzina Ivanishvili
philosophy believe men
...as I reject the old time beliefs, it is not a matter of countering belief with belief, rather I can challenge the efficacy of old beliefs with sound arguments. We believe in nature and that human progress depends on the domination of man over nature. There is no conscious power behind it. This is our philosophy. Bhagat Singh
philosophy had-enough pleasure
We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good. C. S. Lewis
philosophy feelings given
The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
philosophy mean doe
Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
philosophy kind learning-experience
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
ignorance knowing sake
...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
ignorance patriotic simple
I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music. Bernie Taupin
ignorance creativity years
Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago. Bernard Berenson
ignorance hands support
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot know we become insensitive of many things of very great importance. Theology, on the other hand induces a dogmatic belief that we have knowledge where in fact we have ignorance and by doing so generates a kind of impertinent insolence towards the universe. Uncertainty in the presence of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales. Bertrand Russell
ignorance mystery delightful
Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.
ignorance ignorant depth
The dictum that human nature cannot be changed is one of those tiresome platitudes that conceal from the ignorant the depths of their own ignorance.
ignorance religion tyranny
...It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins... Benjamin Franklin
ignorance moon night star
Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star Confucius
ignorance moon night
Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.
knowledge last men merely passions
Passions make men live, knowledge merely makes them last
knowledge people
People have been writing us off, people who don't have the knowledge or expertise.
knowledge
Our whole knowledge of the world hangs on this very slender thread: the re-gu-la-ri-ty of our experiences Luigi Pirandello
knowledge players silly suggest
Players have a lot of knowledge. It would be silly of me to say if they suggest something that I wouldn't look at it. Maurice Cheeks
knowledge
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself. Bernard Beckett
knowledge talking may
Pure mathematics consists entirely of assertions to the effect that, if such and such a proposition is true of anything, then suchand such another proposition is true of that thing.... Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
knowledge inference knows
Whatever we know without inference is mental.
knowledge historical elements
History is valuable, to begin with, because it is true; and this, though not the whole of its value, is the foundation and condition of all the rest. That all knowledge, as such, is in some degree good, would appear to be at least probable; and the knowledge of every historical fact possesses this element of goodness, even if it posses no other.
knowledge science perception
All that passes for knowledge can be arranged in a hierarchy of degrees of certainty, with arithmetic and the facts of perception at the top.