William G T Shedd Quotes

#1. The piecemeal criticism which, like the fly, scans only the edge of a plinth in the great edifice upon which it crawls, disappears under a criticism that is all-comprehending and all-surveying.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#2. There is just now a great clamor and demand for "culture;" but it is not so much culture that is needed as discipline.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#3. A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

William G.T. Shedd

#4. The Black Swan asymmetry allows you to be confident about what is wrong, not about what you believe is right.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#5. I was the Chair of the first department of medical physics in a medical school in the U.S.

John Cameron

#6. A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#7. Frogs are smart - they eat what bugs them.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#8. I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

Martin Parr

#9. What really bugs Henry about Barry, he supposes, is Barry's complacency. His inner assurance that there is no need to change his self-destructive behavior, let alone search for its roots.

Stephen King

#10. They say that travelling broadens your mind, but first you must have a mind.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#11. That some unevangelized men are saved, in the present life, by an extraordinary exercise of redeeming grace in Christ, has been the hope and belief of Christendom. It was the hope and belief of the elder Calvinists, as of the later.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#12. You only love truly once in your lifetime, even if you aren't always aware of it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#13. Fear is never a good enough reason to do nothing

Charlie Sheen

#14. Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#15. I never behold them [the heavens filled with stars] that I do not feel I am looking in the face of God. I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.- Abraham Lincoln

Louise Bachelder

#16. Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

William Greenough Thayer Shedd

#17. Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

Sailor Jerry