Quotes About Second Hand Information

#1. The main importance of Francis Bacon's influence does not lie in any peculiar theory of inductive reasoning which he happened to express, but in the revolt against second-hand information of which he was a leader.

Alfred North Whitehead

#2. More and more we're negating the validity of first-hand experience of people from other countries and other cultures ... whether it's on TV, the Internet, mobile phones or whatever - the world system we live in so values second-hand information.

Nitin Sawhney

#3. It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.

John Gresham Machen

#4. Private ownership of property is vital to both our freedom and our prosperity.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#5. 'Vegetarian' is a slippery word. I don't eat cheese, I don't eat duck - the point is I'm vegan.

Grace Slick

#6. I'll be there someday, I can go the distance.
I will find my way, if I can be strong.
I know every mile, will be worth my while,
When I go the distance, I'll be right where I belong. - Hercules

Walt Disney Company

#7. This was the fall of 2004. The wider world was deeply fucked, and home also. Two American wars raging - bloodbaths each, bloodbath major and bloodbath minor, ugly, squirrelly hateful clandestine wars marked by betrayal, incompetence and corruption. Don't get me started.

Claire Messud

#8. Our bodies live separately from each other, but we are deeply connected with each other, through our belly buttons, to the Source of life.

Ilchi Lee

#9. The consideration of change over the century is about loss, though I think that social change is gain rather than loss.

Penelope Lively

#10. The information I have about Iran is second hand.

Marjane Satrapi

#11. V's smile didn't last long. "Don't get your romantic side fired up about me and Jane, buddy.
She's human."
Butch's jaw dropped and he pulled a bobble. "No, really? That's such a shocker! And here I thought she
was a sheep."
V shot Butch a fuck-ya stare.

J.R. Ward

#12. It is best to start a new project with new people from the scratch.

Sunday Adelaja

#13. After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe.

Terry Goodkind

#14. I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.

Betty Shabazz

#15. Character is determined by choice, not opinion.

Aristotle.

#16. I did make a choice when I got away from baseball to be there to get my kids off to college.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#17. What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.

Alfred North Whitehead