General Quotes - page 19

[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [Dichter], but never a perfected, a truly great man. (Karl Marx)
The unphilosophical and philosophical attitudes can be very sharply distinguished (with scarcely any intermediate forms) by the fact that the first accepts everything that happens as regards its general form, and finds occasion for surprise only in that special content by which something that happens here today differs from what happened there yesterday; whereas for the second, it is precisely the common features of all experience, such as characterise everything we encounter, which are the primary and most profound occasion for astonishment. View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory. View quote
Larry Wall
In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency. View quote
Larry Wall
TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others. View quote
Jon Postel
In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior. View quote
Jon Postel
Looking back to data, we can see if the consequences are plausible; looking forward to theory, we can see if general principles are suggested. View quote
John Henry Holland
Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace. View quote
Immanuel Kant
The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former. View quote
Isaac Newton
In matters of trust and justice there can be no distinction between big problems and small, for the general principles which determine the conduct of men are indivisible. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs. (Albert Einstein)
When the profits of trade happen to be greater than ordinary, over-trading becomes a general error both among great and small dealers. View quote
Adam Smith
The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. View quote
Ernst Mach
I shall not rest until, once again, the destinies of our people and our party are joined together again in victory at the next general election Labour in its rightful place in government again. View quote
Tony Blair
Opposed to atomism and behaviorism, the systems view of man links him again with the world he lives in, for he is seen as emerging in that world and reflecting its general character. View quote
Ervin László
There is nothing supernatural about the process of self-organization to states of higher entropy; it is a general property of systems, regardless of their materials and origin. It does not violate the Second Law of thermodynamics since the decrease in entropy within an open system is always offset by the increase of entropy in its surroundings. View quote
Ervin László
many seemingly independent businessmen or craftsman are more or less well paid retainers of larger corporations, such as the cobbler, operating a United States shoe machine or an automobile dealer holding a license of the General Motors Corporation. View quote
Paul A. Baran
...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as "a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows”, he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American. View quote
Randall Jarrell
According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for. View quote
Allen Tate
I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular. View quote
Errol Morris
In most communities it is illegal to cry 'fire' in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims? (Dwight D. Eisenhower)
No part belonging to any single one of (all) rational beings will be lost, as far as God is concerned, in the preparation of that supernal Kingdom which is prepared for all worlds. Because of that goodness of His nature by which He brought the universe into being (and then) bears, guides and provides for the worlds and (all) created things in His immeasurable compassion, He has devised the establishment of the Kingdom of heaven for the entire community of rational beings - even though an intervening time is reserved for the general raising (of all) to the same level. View quote
Isaac the Syrian
The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity. View quote
A. E. Waite
I think there's a general misconception that anything written quickly lacks quality, and I don't believe that. View quote
Michael Connelly
Early entry is appropriate when the following general circumstances hold: - Image and reputation of the firm are important to the buyer, and the firm can develop an enhanced reputation by being a pioneer. - Early entry can initiate the learning process in a business in which the learning curve is important, experience is difficult to imitate, and it will not be nullified by successive technological generations. - Customer loyalty will be great, so that benefits will accrue to the firm that sells to the customer first. - Absolute cost advantages can be gained by early commitment to supplies of raw materials, distribution channels, and so on. View quote
Michael E. Porter