Phenomenon Quotes

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. (Eduard Shevardnadze)
The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference. View quote
Paul Samuelson
If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it? View quote
Bette Midler
All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense. View quote
Robert Anton Wilson
It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena. View quote
William Whewell
In Iran we don't have homosexuals like in your country. [...] In Iran we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who's told you that we have this. View quote
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena. (Albertus Magnus)
Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization. View quote
Shirley Hazzard
In Aristotle the mind, regarded as the principle of life, divides into nutrition, sensation, and faculty of thought, corresponding to the inner most important stages in the succession of vital phenomena. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Either the conscious intellect is impotent, or is not sufficiently strong, or is not the factor positively connected with altruistic phenomenon generally or their sublime form particularly. View quote
Pitirim Sorokin
Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal "honor" and court etiquette. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The number of rational hypotheses that can explain any given phenomenon is infinite. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature! View quote
Thomas Mann
I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end the fundamentalists, the beginning when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town. View quote
William Faulkner
Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. View quote
Milton Friedman
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being. (Martha Graham)
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. View quote
Erich Fromm
I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena. View quote
Edgard Varèse
Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. View quote
Hannah Arendt