Virtue Theory Quotes

#1. Let me end by summarizing some advantages of exemplarism. Exemplarist virtue theory has the theoretical simplicity and power of foundationalism without the problems of a conceptual foundation.

Anonymous

#2. Do not make the mistake of holding your idea close to your chest ... Submit it to the criticism of the judicious.

James Webb Young

#3. his theory that all of the world's problems were caused by notions of ethnic virtue and that if marriages were limited to interracial lovers there would be peace on earth. There

Jim Harrison

#4. Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

Imre Lakatos

#5. No one rides for free, and in the end, even the most seaworthy ship goes down, blub-blub-blub. The only way to balance that off, in Hodges's opinion, is to make the most of every day afloat.

Stephen King

#6. My basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Stephen King

#7. There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

Zoe Lister-Jones

#8. As the Prussian historian Treitschke later complained, the proponents of free trade in Hamburg had 'in German fashion made out of necessity not just a virtue but a theory'.

Richard J. Evans

#9. We didn't put a single boot on the ground, and [Muammar] Gaddafi was deposed. The Libyans turned out for one of the most successful, fairest elections that any Arab country has had. They elected moderate leaders.

Hillary Clinton

#10. 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.

Karl Popper

#11. Only a tiny percentage of people in the world care about moral theory in the sense I have been discussing, whereas 100 percent of the people in the world like stories. Most moral insights come from stories, but it is the special virtue of the philosopher to organize those insights

Anonymous

#12. The Theory of Surplus Value means that anytime you hire someone, you are exploiting him. If you pay someone to fix your automobile, he has the right, by virtue of being your mechanic, to steal your car.

P. J. O'Rourke

#13. I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life ... I dream too much, work too little.

Sylvia Plath

#14. Answered prayers cover the field of providential history as flowers cover western prairies.

Theodore L. Cuyler