“You follow these little discrepancies long enough and they sometimes open up into huge revelations.” — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between equity earnings yields and Treasury yields is at an all time high — John Paulson Copy Share Image
In cases of major discrepancy its always reality thats got it wrong ... reality is frequently inaccurate. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
No matter how consummate a work of art may seem, it is only an approximation of the original conception. It is the… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Discrepancies between self-efficacy judgment and performance will arise when either the tasks or the circumstances under which they are performed are ambiguous — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
How can I tell," said the man, "that the past isn't a fiction designed to account for the discrepancy between my immediate… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
All our parents have levels of deviousness. We're driven to write about this discrepancy between the bright shining selves they invented and… — Francine du Plessix Gray Copy Share Image
The discrepancy or contradiction is the entire story. And being the entire story, it by itself discredits the entire twenty-six volumes of… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between what was expected and what has been observed has grown over the years, and we're straining harder and harder… — Jeremiah P. Ostriker Copy Share Image
If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be… — Christopher Rice Copy Share Image
Well, my wife doesn't engage. I mean if you want to look back, really dig down and be a journalist, look at… — Eddie Cibrian Copy Share Image
I guess what surprised me the most was the discrepancy in casualties: Iraq, one hundred fifty thousand casualties, USA: seventy-nine! Let's go… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
There is a discrepancy of somebody going to an art dealer and promising what they'll make for the next three years. And… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
When we fail to live up to our ideals, for instance, we might begin to wonder who we are - most people… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Discrepancy between theory and practice, which in sound physical and mechanical science is a delusion, has a real existence in the minds… — William John Macquorn Rankine Copy Share Image
LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
It is expected that there will be discrepancies between models and observations. However, why these arise and what one should conclude from… — Gavin Schmidt Copy Share Image
Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is… — Harry Frankfurt Copy Share Image
In point of fact, no conclusive disproof of a theory can ever be produced; for it is always possible to say that… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“As we will see, there are lots of other discrepancies in the New Testament, some of them far more difficult to reconcile… — Bart D. Ehrman Copy Share Image
A paradigm is a powerful theoretical and methodological framework which defines the working lives of thousands of intelligent and disciplined minds. And… — John Naughton Copy Share Image
The Iranian people were converted to Islam not very much longer after the conquest of the Arab world by Islam, but they… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling… — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between American ideals and American practice - between our aims and what we actually do - creates a moral dry… — Helen Gahagan Douglas Copy Share Image
Whenever you have the kind of market that is taking shape now - a wildly volatile one with big pricing discrepancies -… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Accounting incomes were reduced by discrepancy [ but] "the net amount paid by lawyers for lawyerly discrepancy is close to zippo. In… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want.… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Credibility is lost when there are big discrepancies between what leaders say and what they do. ... Increasing credibility requires openness. Hidden… — Judith M Bardwick Copy Share Image
The discrepancy between what actually happened and the version of what happened provided by sources is an enormous gray area. — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
Legends of prediction are common throughout the whole Household of Man. Gods speak, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation,… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
My mother got sick when I was rich. And my mother, you know … I don’t really want to get into it,… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite… — Tobias Dantzig Copy Share Image
God allows unjust disparities between rich and poor because He does not miraculously intervene to establish justice against human wills. Also, discrepancies… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image