Chauncey Wright Quotes

#1. We receive the truths of science by compulsion. Nothing but ignorance is able to resist them.

Chauncey Wright

#2. What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.

Daniel Goleman

#3. Why crawl like a caterpillar when you have the wings to be a butterfly?

Faraaz Kazi

#4. The accidental causes of science are only accidents relatively to the intelligence of a man.

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#5. And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.

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#6. The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

Virginia Woolf

#7. If they are, then the only ultimate truths are the particulars of concrete experience, and no postulate or general assumption is inherent in science until its proceedings become systematic, or the truths already reached give direction to further research.

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#8. Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.

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#9. That's not necessary. I'm doing what any good friend would do, out of loyalty and Lunar patriotism and--"
"I'll buy you a new pair of shoes."
"Sold.

Marissa Meyer

#10. The harmony of the part with the whole may be the best definition of health, beauty, truth, wisdom, morality, and happiness. This

Will Durant

#11. Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

Ron Paul

#12. By what criterion ... can we distinguish among the numberless effects, that are also causes, and among the causes that may, for aught we can know, be also effects, - how can we distinguish which are the means and which are the ends?

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#13. He nodded once and only once. When he

Brittainy C. Cherry

#14. The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.

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#15. Things happen to help you get rid of the parts of yourself that aren't you; to help you be more real and more yourself, not like everyone else; to help you lead a more authentic life; and ultimately to help you discover who you really are.

Mira Kirshenbaum

#16. Let one persuade many, and he becomes confirmed and convinced, and cares for no better evidence.

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#17. Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.

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#18. What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

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#19. The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.

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#20. It is not great faith, but true faith, that saves; and the salvation lies not in the faith, but in the Christ in whom faith trusts ... It is not the measure of faith, but the sincerity of faith, which is the point to be considered.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#21. I just like having fun.

Katy Perry

#22. All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control.

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#23. That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.

Hugh Howey

#24. It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? - Jonathan Harker

Bram Stoker