Pretheoretical Quotes

#1. No one would suggest that we can adequately investigate what makes something an acid, or what makes something aluminum, by bringing our pretheoretical intuitions about these things into reflective equilibrium by way of armchair theorising.

Hilary Kornblith

#2. In my view, since the case can be made that knowledge too is a natural kind, the role of pretheoretical intuitions is similarly diminished in epistemology.

Hilary Kornblith

#3. What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

Alexander Lowen

#4. For me, the most entertaining evening would be to go sit with entrepreneurs and talk with them about how they're building their companies and how we can help to make them better. That's the one thing in the world - well, I love doing that.

Ashton Kutcher

#5. The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is taxes.

William Feather

#6. Singletons should not have to explain themselves all the time but should have an
accepted status - like geisha girls do

Helen Fielding

#7. Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing.

John Philip Sousa

#8. If it is good literature, the reader and the writer will connect. It's inevitable.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#9. One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way.

Kevin DeYoung

#10. Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. Light a match inside your heart, then blow on the tinder.
It's always fire with Baz. I can't believe he hasn't incinerated me yet.

Rainbow Rowell

#12. While I'm driving, I've got speed, gear, lap time, water temperature, blood sugar, RPM, oil pressure. I've got car data and body data all together. It's all on the dash.

Charlie Kimball

#13. God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power of creativity to influence the culture.

Phil Cooke

#14. The convex surface of any segment of a sphere is, to the entire surface of the sphere itself, as the versed sine of the segment to the diameter of the sphere.

Edgar Allan Poe

#15. There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies

Jeanette Winterson