Empiric Quotes

#1. The young reject the holy, because to accept it means to accept the eventual death of all empiric objects,

Stephen King

#2. The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#3. (The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

Jane Jacobs

#4. The empiric easily degenerates into the quack. He does not know where his knowledge begins or leaves off, and so when he gets beyond routine conditions he begins to pretend-to make claims for which there is no justification, and to trust to luck and to ability to impose upon others-to "bluff."

John Dewey

#5. From powerful causes spring the empiric's gains, Man's love of life, his weakness, and his pains; These first induce him the vile trash to try, Then lend his name, that other men may buy.

George Crabbe

#6. I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

Thomas Jefferson

#7. Don't despise empiric truth. Lots of things work in practice for which the laboratory has never found proof.

Martin H. Fischer

#8. It is the empiric who never fails.

Robert Aris Willmott

#9. If you truly love me, kill the bartender.

Quentin Crisp

#10. I have no direct knowledge of this, but I suspect that Apple will launch a living room product that redefines people's expectations really strongly, and the notion of a separate console platform will disappear concurrent with Apple's announcement.

Gabe Newell

#11. The only magic we have is what we make in ourselves, the muscles we build up on the inside, the sense of belief we create from nothing.

Dorothy Allison

#12. When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

Peter Thiel

#13. Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. You're born with the power of love, why you are looking for power of destruction?

Debasish Mridha

#15. It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.

Cynthia Lewis

#16. Creative people depend on the generosity and graces of strangers.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#17. As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

Goh Chok Tong