Sounder Quotes

We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. (H. P. Lovecraft)
It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country. View quote
Saki
I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology. View quote
Oswald Spengler
It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it. View quote
Wilfrid Laurier
I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'. View quote
Christopher Judge
For policy, the central fact is that Keynesian policy recommendations have no sounder basis, in a scientific sense, than recommendations of non-Keynesian economists or, for that matter, non-economists. View quote
Robert Lucas, Jr.
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
It can be said of him [Scott], when he departed he took a man's life along with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of time. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
[The moral hero is] fighting for the reshaping of his own society on sounder lines [his] behavior might offend the sense of decorum of the cautious conventionalist. View quote
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well. View quote
Charles Sanders Peirce
The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter. (Gideon Welles)
I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder. View quote
Cicely Tyson
Bit by bit, as the legend unfolds, the reader gets a more accurate picture of the human race. By degrees, one gains the conviction that here is a race which can be little more than pure fantasy. It is not the kind of race which could rise from humble beginnings to the eminence of culture with which it is gifted in these tales. Its equipment is too poor. So far it lack of stability has become apparent. Its preoccupation with a mechanical civilization rather than with a culture based on some of the sounder, more worthwhile concepts of life indicates a lack of basic character. And now, in this tale, we learn of the limited communications which it possessed, a situation which certainly is not conducive to advancement. Man's inability to understand and appreciate the thought and the viewpoint of another man would be a stumbling block which no amount of mechanical ability could overcome. View quote
Clifford D. Simak
Sober, modern Occidental judgement is founded on a total misunderstanding of the realities depicted in the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedies of redemption. These, in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. View quote
Joseph Campbell
Let no man fear to die: We love to sleep all, And death is but the sounder sleep. View quote
John Fletcher
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. View quote
Francis Beaumont
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. View quote
E. W. Howe
I crawled in the street and I murmured,"I'm done." Then up came Old Jenkins and shouted,"Oh son!" "My word you do look well! My word you do look well! You're looking fine and in the pink!" I shouted, "Am I? Come and have a drink! You've put new life in me, I'm sounder than a bell. By gad! There's life in the old dog yet. My word I do feel well!" View quote
Stanley Holloway
Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
For policy, the central fact is that Keynesian policy recommendations have no sounder basis, in a scientific sense, than recommendations of non-Keynesian economists or, for that matter, non-economists. View quote
Thomas J. Sargent
Once we have replaced the basic premise of "more is better” with the much sounder axiom that "enough is best,” the social and technical problems of moving to a steady state become solvable, perhaps even trivial. (Herman E. Daly)
It did seem sounder to build houses which he could build than to teach children a gospel which he did not altogether understand in a Sioux language which he could not quite speak. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits. View quote
Blaise Pascal
In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the question cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind. If any false opinion, embraced from appearances, has been found to prevail; as soon as farther experience and sounder reasoning have given us juster notions of human affairs, we retract our first sentiment, and adjust anew the boundaries of moral good and evil. View quote
David Hume
We are nature's unique experiment to make the rational intelligence prove itself sounder than the reflex. View quote
Jacob Bronowski