Given Quotes - page 5

Now when an American has an idea, he directly seeks a second American to share it. If there be three, they elect a president and two secretaries. Given four, they name a keeper of records, and the office is ready for work; five, they convene a general meeting, and the club is fully constituted. (Jules Verne)
Promise is most given when the least is said. View quote
George Chapman
The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Of all those in the army close to the commander none is more intimate than the secret agent; of all rewards none more liberal than those given to secret agents; of all matters none is more confidential than those relating to secret operations. View quote
Sun Tzu
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. View quote
John Tukey
Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief. View quote
William Faulkner
Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so. View quote
Doris Lessing
If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. View quote
Doris Lessing
Those who have given themselves the most concern about the happiness of peoples have made their neighbors very miserable. View quote
Anatole France
I never saw a moor, I never saw the sea Yet know I how the heather looks, And what a wave must be. I never spoke with God, Nor visited in heaven Yet certain am I of the spot As if the chart were given. View quote
Emily Dickinson
To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up. (V. S. Naipaul)
The following general definition of an animal a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. View quote
Denis Diderot
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. View quote
George Steiner
A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven. View quote
William Wordsworth
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. View quote
Annie Besant
But as for me, Emperor, nature has not given me stature, age has marred my face, and my strength is impaired by ill health. Therefore, since these advantages fail me, I shall win your approval, as I hope, by the help of my knowledge and my writings. View quote
Vitruvius
The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. View quote
Eric Clapton
We can consciously end our life almost anytime we choose. This ability is an endowment, like laughing and blushing, given to no other animal... in any given moment, by not exercising the option of suicide, we are choosing to live. View quote
Peter McWilliams
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come. View quote
Frederick William Robertson
I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it, like reason, makes no sense if conceived in a partial way. View quote
Erich Fromm
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. (Brian Tracy)
To every object there corresponds an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject. View quote
Edmund Husserl
To the degree to which they correspond to the given reality, thought and behavior express a false consciousness, responding to and contributing to the preservation of a false order of facts. And this false consciousness has become embodied in the prevailing technical apparatus which in turn reproduces it. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
In the form of the oeuvre, the actual circumstances are placed in another dimension where the given reality shows itself as that which it is. Thus it tells the truth about itself; its language ceases to be that of deception, ignorance, and submission. Fiction calls the facts by their name and their reign collapses; fiction subverts everyday experience and shows it to be mutilated and false. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Such abstraction which refuses to accept the given universe of facts as the final context of validation, such "transcending” analysis of the facts in the light of their arrested and denied possibilities, pertains to the very structure of social theory. View quote
Herbert Marcuse