Quotes About Unverifiable

#1. With the destruction of history, contemporary events themselves retreat into a remote and fabulous realm of unverifiable stories, uncheckable statistics, unlikely explanations and untenable reasoning.

Guy Debord

#2. If a doctrine is not unintelligible, it has to be vague; and if neither unintelligible nor vague, it has to be unverifiable.

Eric Hoffer

#3. He despised philosophy as soft and unverifiable. Philosophers "are always on the outside making stupid remarks," he said, and the word he pronounced philozawfigal was a mocking epithet, but his influence was philosophical anyway, particularly for younger physicists.

James Gleick

#4. Once you start rummaging around in the realm of the unverifiable there is considerable room for creativity, and accusations of sorcery are often blended with self-serving motives. Tribal people, anthropologists have shown, often single out despised in-laws for allegations of witchcraft, a convenient

Steven Pinker

#5. A myth is an unverifiable and typically fantastic story that is nonethless felt to be true and that deal with a theme of some importance to the believer.

John Bierhorst

#6. Off-camera lives are unverifiable.

Don DeLillo

#7. Our violent, narcissistic, noncommittal, "me first" culture is simply the logical and predictable expression of "truth" as a relative, subjective, unverifiable concept.

Chip Ingram

#8. I am concerned with facts of quite unverifiable intrinsic value, but which, by their absolutely unexpected violently fortuitous character, and the kind of associations of suspect ideas they provoke.

Andre Breton

#9. Gross well says that children are young because they play, and not vice versa; and he might have added, men grow old because they stop playing, and not conversely, for play is, at bottom, growth, and at the top of the intellectual scale it is the eternal type of research from sheer love of truth.

G. Stanley Hall

#10. Magick comes in many forms, and there are many covert master magicians who are so covert that they don't even know they are magicians.

Christopher Penczak

#11. Americans are finally realizing that once you lose land, you can't get it back.

Christine Todd Whitman

#12. The art of painting is entering a new golden age. It is in no danger of becoming obsolete.

Joseph Plaskett

#13. We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know

Timothy Keller

#14. People often find themselves achieving victories that are empty, successes that have come at the expense of things they suddenly realize were far more valuable to them.

Stephen R. Covey

#15. I'd really like to show women my age - who've had children grow up or lost husbands or retired after working all their lives - that there are options. There are choices. We don't have to just sit around and be invisible.

Katherine Helmond

#16. When love is involved no sacrifice is too great.

David Eddings