Stebbing Way Quotes

#1. We easily fall into the habit of accepting compressed statements which save us from the trouble of thinking. Thus arises what I shall call 'Potted Thinking'.

Susan Stebbing

#2. I don't have 'The Jerry Springer Show'. I just got 'Family Feud', but some of them families, when they lose, man, they have some real conversations with each other back behind that wall, but I've never been involved in any of them.

Steve Harvey

#3. Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied

Virginia Woolf

#4. Positive thinking will ultimately enable you to live a positive life. So think positively.

Debasish Mridha

#5. The opposite of thinking clearly is being muddled. To be conscious of being muddled is a horrible experience. To avoid it we may even be tempted to shut our minds and swallow a belief, ready-made, from some expert authority.

Susan Stebbing

#6. We come to think of an idealist as one who seeks to realize what is not in fact realizable. But, it is necessary to insist, to have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals, however often it may be the case that our ideals are impracticable.

Susan Stebbing

#7. It is an illusion to suppose that a Dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.

Susan Stebbing

#8. It is not swinish to be happy unless one is happy in swinish ways.

Susan Stebbing

#9. A system is said to be coherent if every fact in the system is related every other fact in the system by relations that are not merely conjunctive. A deductive system affords a good example of a coherent system.

Susan Stebbing

#10. What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

Ernest Becker

#11. What we accept as reality is primarily a construction of our imagination.

Joey Lawsin

#12. When you guarantee increase, you create attention for yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#13. To have ideals is not the same as to have impracticable ideals.

Susan Stebbing

#14. Thinking is a tiring process; it is much easier to accept beliefs passively than to think them out, rigorously questioning their grounds by asking what are the consequences that follow from them.

L. Susan Stebbing

#15. Painting is the frozen evidence of a performance.

Chuck Close

#16. All Knowles had to do to close the door and get us to the first floor was to press a button, but he wasn't going to do that yet. He wasn't going to do it, maybe, for years.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#17. She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that's what love is - a total contradiction that somehow balances out.

Tammara Webber