Substitute Quotes - page 3

Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words. (Edwin Howard Armstrong)
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith." We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions. View quote
Bertrand Russell
No rules, however wise, are a substitute for affection and tact. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe. View quote
Albert Camus
There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance. View quote
Cesar Chavez
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute. View quote
David Mitchell (author)
To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality. View quote
Virginia Woolf
It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity. View quote
Lawrence M. Krauss
Hitherto no rival hypothesis has been proposed as a substitute for the doctrine of transmutation; for 'independent creation,' as it is often termed, or the direct intervention of the Supreme Cause, must simply be considered as an avowal that we deem the question to lie beyond the domain of science. View quote
Charles Lyell
Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical? (Victor Hugo)
Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward. View quote
Flora Thompson
No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. View quote
Lascelles Abercrombie
Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. View quote
Charles Dickens
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. View quote
Paul Weyrich
Modern wars are seldom fought without hatred between nations; this serves more or less as a substitute for hatred between individuals. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs. View quote
Winston Churchill
People do not cooperate under the division of labor because they love or should love one another. They cooperate because this best serves their own interests. Neither love nor charity nor any other sympathetic sentiments but rightly understood selfishness is what originally impelled man to adjust himself to the requirements of society, to respect the rights and freedoms of his fellow men and to substitute peaceful collaboration for enmity and conflict. View quote
Ludwig von Mises
In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory... View quote
Erwin Schrödinger
Typing is no substitute for thinking. View quote
Richard Hamming
The "brightness” of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions. (Paul Goodman)
There iz only one good substitute for the endearments ov a sister, and that iz the endearments ov sum other pheller's sister. View quote
Josh Billings
No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute. View quote
Paul Gallico
In my view, prescribing antidepressant drugs is too often a quick and easy substitute for developing treatment plans that address the totality of health concerns and lifestyle factors that have an impact on wellness, including emotional wellness. View quote
Andrew Weil
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships. View quote
Harriet Lerner