Frank Ramsey Quotes

#1. The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

Hunter S. Thompson

#2. My mountain is dead. As soon as she has dried, I'll bury her under a decent layer of white paint. But I haven't done with the old lady; far from it!

Emily Carr

#3. Offset and Skillfeed are examples of products launched in 2013 that have expanded our opportunity with both large enterprises and across new content types.

Jon Oringer

#4. When I make a book, I make it for the child and not for the parent - no jokes in it for the parents!

Dick Bruna

#5. "Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

James C. Collins

#6. Science, history and politics are not suited for discussion except by experts. Others are simply in the position of requiring more information; and, till they have acquired all available information, cannot do anything but accept on authority the opinions of those better qualified.

Frank P. Ramsey

#7. What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.

Frank P. Ramsey

#8. Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

Ozzy Osbourne

#9. Find your self-esteem and be forever free to dream.

Shania Twain

#10. The chief danger to our philosophy, apart from laziness and woolliness, is scholasticism, the essence of which is treating what is vague as if it were precise and trying to fit it into an exact logical category.

Frank P. Ramsey

#11. Despite the miracles they had seen God perform in Egypt, their eyes were on the power of the Egyptians. But

Kim Cash Tate

#12. To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

Sylvia Plath

#13. Logic issues in tautologies, mathematics in identities, philosophy in definitions; all trivial, but all part of the vital work of clarifying and organising our thought.

Frank Plumpton Ramsey

#14. We are in the ordinary position of scientists of having to be content with piecemeal improvements: we can make several things clearer, but we cannot make anything clear.

Frank P. Ramsey

#15. The deeds of darkness will be illuminated by the sun; maybe not today - but definitely tomorrow.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#16. [I attach] little importance to physical size. I don't feel the least humble before the vastness of the heavens. The stars may be large, but they cannot think or love; and these are qualities which impress me far more than size does.

Frank P. Ramsey

#17. Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

Anais Nin