Point Quotes - page 3

But epistemology is always and inevitably personal. The point of the probe is always in the heart of the explorer: What is my answer to the question of the nature of knowing? (Gregory Bateson)
Ideologies are too seductive anyway. It does a man good to see things from a different point of view. View quote
David Brin
Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. View quote
Neil Simon
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. View quote
Howard Dean
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. View quote
C. Northcote Parkinson
Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. View quote
Václav Havel
Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Wedding: the point at which a man stops toasting a woman and begins roasting her. View quote
Helen Rowland
People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. View quote
Jim Morrison
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep. (Salman Rushdie)
The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform. View quote
George Steiner
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. View quote
Mary Shelley
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. View quote
André Gide
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity. View quote
Marie Curie
The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism. View quote
Arthur Miller
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. View quote
Isaac Newton
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case. (Albert Einstein)
From this point on, she whispered, we will either find or lose our souls. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. View quote
Mark Strand
But I am sure also that from a political point of view, and from a social point of view the federal link, without infringing the sovereignty of any of the nations which might take part in such as association, could be beneficial. View quote
Aristide Briand
Philosophers are never quite sure what they are talking about - about what the issues really are - and so often it takes them rather a long time to recognize that someone with a somewhat different approach (or destination, or starting point) is making a contribution. View quote
Daniel Dennett