Preferred Quotes - page 2

The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely to be preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it. (Terry Pratchett)
There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible. View quote
Edward Teller
I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won't rust. And, this time I hope, the head will stay on. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
All affected can accept the consequences and the side effects that [the norm's] general observance can be anticipated to have for the satisfaction of everyone's interests, and the consequences are preferred to those of known alternative possibilities for regulation. View quote
Jürgen Habermas
The people of England will curse themselves for having preferred ruin from Churchill to peace from Hitler. View quote
William Joyce
Men must always have distinguished (e. g. in judicial matters) between hearsay and seeing with one's own eyes and have preferred what one has seen to what he has merely heard from others. But the use of this distinction was originally limited to particular or subordinate matters. As regards the most weighty matters-the first things and the right way-the only source of knowledge was hearsay. View quote
Leo Strauss
In 1939 I wrote my first article ('Intime banaliteter' [Intimate banalities] in the journal Helhesten) in which I expressed my love for sofa painting, and for the last twenty years I have been preoccupied with the idea of rendering homage to it. Thus I act with full responsibility and after extensive reflection. Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting. View quote
Asger Jorn
Freud pointed out, in his Problem of Lay Analysis, that it is extremely unlikely that a young man who would throw the best years of his life into the cloistered drudgery of getting an M. D. degree, could possibly make a good psychoanalyst; so he preferred to look for young analysts among the writers, the lawyers, the mothers of families, those who had chosen human contact. But in their economic wisdom, the Psychoanalytic Institute of Vienna (and New York) overruled him. View quote
Paul Goodman
I feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
And what else did John have in mind but what is virtuous, so that he could not endure a wicked union even in the king's case, saying: "It is not lawful for thee to have her to wife." He could have been silent, had he not thought it unseemly for himself not to speak the truth for fear of death, or to make the prophetic office yield to the king, or to indulge in flattery. He knew well that he would die as he was against the king, but he preferred virtue to safety. Yet what is more expedient than the suffering which brought glory to the saint. View quote
Ambrose
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies. (Robert Ludlum)
I preferred to use mathematics in some practical fashion and thought that meteorology sounded promising. View quote
Clive Granger
My preferred style is to write in first person, so I always have to play around with possible narrator voices until I find something that works. View quote
Laurie Graham
Two decades after communism and the alleged end of the Cold War, Russia is still a cash economy. The preferred currency is dollars, though euros are also acceptable. View quote
Luke Harding
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. View quote
Doug Larson
Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement. View quote
Derek Barton
I don't like directing a lot of people. So trying to keep things really simple and elegant is my preferred way of working. View quote
Carrie Mae Weems
America slept because most Americans preferred it that way. View quote
Ferdinand Mount
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian. View quote
Levon Helm
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium. View quote
Mackenzie Crook
When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me. (Paul Hirsch)
I've never been seriously involved with anyone. I've certainly never been in love. I've always preferred to keep things casual. View quote
Rupert Grint
They fought because they were paid for it; they were not interested very much in the conquest of Greece. The Athenians on the other hand, fought for their freedom. They preferred to die rather than lose their freedom, and those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
A judge can't have any preferred outcome in any particular case. The judge's only obligation - and it's a solemn obligation - is to the rule of law. View quote
Samuel Alito
I would have preferred to be successful here with a piece that cost me a huge amount of money and effort... rather than sending to Bohemia some ordinary works. View quote
Camille Claudel