The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress. — Bert Hellinger Copy Share Image
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large,… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would never have written Don Giovanni,… — Charlie Parker Copy Share Image
Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
The criterion of true beauty is, that it increases in examination; of false, that it lessens. There is something, therefore, in true… — George Grenville Copy Share Image
Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
“Insofar as it is possible to divide people in categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
That of War and Peace or of Almagestes. All are satisfactory. The only criterion of a work is its validity: that it… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
If I knew how to operate a DVR, you'd find episodes of 'The Tavis Smiley Show,' 'Democracy Now!' and lots of stuff… — T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Copy Share Image
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
I am a romantic, in a literary way, by which I mean the Romantic poets, who thought just because a sensation is… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
The main criterion for an award (of a research contract from the NCI) is the capacity to demonstrate the relevance of the… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I did 'Louie Bluie' and 'Crumb' with Criterion was because I like a lot of their older French… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
I don't care who likes it or buys it. Because if you use that criterion, Mozart would have never written Don Giovanni,… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I think the core criterion is the social awkwardness, but the sensory issues are a serious problem in many, many cases of… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it… — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
Since growth is the characteristic of life, education is all one with growing; it has no end beyond itself. The criterion of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that...… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time. — Peter Bogdanovich Copy Share Image
And remember, that is the criterion. If a person can enjoy and celebrate his death, that shows he has lived rightly; there… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Part of my problem as a young writer was that I was too much a New Yorker, always second-guessing the 'market.' I… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
“What criterion ought one to adopt to judge one's fellows? After all, there was not a single person he knew who might… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“And the criterion is within you – not in bibles, not in the koran, not in the gita. The criterion is in… — Osho Copy Share Image
I think there have to be Bachs and Beethovens. We may have - there are so many more people. Musical training is… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
