Irrefutability Quotes

#1. O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain. - Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#2. To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds. Listening to the silence immediately creates stillness inside you. - Author: Eckhart Tolle

#3. Prodigality is indeed the vice of a weak nature, as avarice is of a strong one; it comes of a weak craving for those blandishments of the world which are easily to be had for money, and which, when obtained, are as much worse than worthless as a harlot's love is worse than none. - Author: Henry Taylor

#4. I grew up in Alsace - in Strasbourg, by the canal; the family business was coal handling. It was still in the days when three generations would live under the same roof. There were 15 people for lunch, 20 for dinner. - Author: Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#5. Our marketable equities tell us by their operating results - not by their daily, or even yearly, price quotations - whether our investments are successful. The market may ignore business success for a while, but eventually will confirm it. - Author: Warren Buffett

#6. The world will be balanced when we are balanced. - Author: Tarthang Tulku

#7. A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is nonscientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice. - Author: Karl Popper

#8. Leadership does not mean being bossy, always telling others what to do. No, leadership means going ahead, not putting others in the front. Good leaders lead by example, not by decree. - Author: Myles Munroe

#9. People called me a hoodlum and a thug. But they didn't tell you I was a carpenter, an architect, a stand-up comic - even a bartender. And a barbecue cook. But they didn't tell you that. - Author: Bobby Seale

#10. Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities. - Author: Charles Baudelaire

#11. The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness. - Author: William Hazlitt

#12. She's television generation. She learned life from Bugs Bunny. The only reality she knows comes to her through the television set. - Author: William Holden

#13. Whenever you find yourself getting angry about a difference of opinion, be on your guard; you will probably find, on examination, that your belief is going beyond what the evidence warrants. - Author: Bertrand Russell

#14. The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing. - Author: Havelock Ellis

#15. Those things that hurt, instruct. - Author: M. Scott Peck

#16. The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances. - Author: Alan Greenspan