Empiricist Quotes

#1. The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

Antonin Artaud

#2. Epicurus as a moral empiricist felt that our immediate feelings are far more cogent and authoritative guides to the good life than abstract maxims, verbal indoctrination, or even the voice of reason itself. Hence he based his ethics on nature, not on convention or on reason.

Epicurus

#3. The Vienna Circle was empiricist and phenomenalist, Popper was a critical rationalist.

Karl R. Popper

#4. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. The quality of the human that precludes identifying the individual with the class is 'metaphysical' and has no place in empiricist epistemology. The pigeon hole into which a man is shoved circumscribes his fate.

Max Horkheimer

#6. There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#7. Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Megan Chance

#8. The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?

E. O. Wilson

#9. It matters not to an empiricist from what quarter an hypothesis may come to him: he may have acquired it by fair means or by foul; passion may have whispered or accident suggested it; but if the total drift of thinking continues to confirm it, that is what he means by its being true.

William James

#10. To be a good biographer, you have to be an empiricist. You know, you have to gather the evidence, you have to keep an open mind, and you have to be objective. A memoirist goes in with all the baggage of a bad biographer.

Blake Bailey

#11. I'm more of an empiricist. I'm focused on right or wrong, as opposed to left or right.

Anthony Scaramucci

#12. I was a born empiricist. I believed that writers were paid to pretend, and where appropriate should make use of the real world, the one we all shared, to give plausibility to whatever they had made up.

Ian McEwan

#13. No human being can destroy the structure of a marriage except the two who made it. It is the one human edifice that is impregnable except from within.

Gwen Bristow

#14. As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.

Joe Montana

#15. I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.

Anne Rice

#16. I don't want people to forget Babe Ruth. I just want them to remember Henry Aaron.

Hank Aaron

#17. I even made love to myself once. Uhh, I wasn't suppose to tell you that.

Gary B.B. Coleman