Method Quotes · Page 26

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

— Alexander Pope

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

— George Bernard Shaw

The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Problems breed problems, and the lack of a disciplined method of openly attacking them breeds more problems.

— Phil Crosby

I'm not proselytizing my method. I don't believe that one writer should tell other writers how to write.

— John Irving

Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass, and some cracked ice.

— John Barrymore

What sets us against one another is not our aims-they all come to the same thing-but our methods, which are the fruit…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone…

— Dorie Greenspan

Please help keep the world clean: others may wish to use it. Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Taxation has its limitations as a method of achieving better economic distribution since for this purpose it is essentially remedial. We must…

— John D. Rockefeller

Certainly, I signed a statement that I killed two and a half million Jews. But I could just as well have said…

— Rudolf Hess

The fundamental qualities for good execution of a plan is first; intelligence; then discernment and judgment, which enable one to recognize the…

— Ferdinand Foch

I am a creationist and an evolutionist. Evolution is God's, or Nature's method of creation. Creation is not an event that happened…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science-that of picking men of genius, backing them heavily, and…

— James Bryant Conant

The conventional asset-allocation method is like sheet music. It is prescribed, it has right answers and wrong answers and it sounds about…

— John Kao

The vast majority of students probably emerge from college with an adequate grasp of no more than a single method of inquiry.…

— Derek Bok

Science has a culture that is inherently cautious and that is normally not a bad thing. You could even say conservative, because…

— Al Gore

Of all human and ancient opinions concerning religion, that seems to me the most likely and most excusable, that acknowledged God as…

— Michel de Montaigne

Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially…

— Anonymous

And who can suffer injury by just taxation, impartial laws and the application of the Jeffersonian doctrine of equal rights to all…

— William Jennings Bryan

The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and…

— Lord Kelvin

Psychologism is, I believe, correct only in so far as it insists upon what may be called 'methodological individualism' as opposed to…

— Karl Popper

Today's liberal intellectuals, who pride themselves on scientific method and being “broadminded”, are the most narrow-minded, self-righteous and hate-filled bigots in the…

— George Lincoln Rockwell

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

— Emma Goldman

“Small details are a vital part of allowing a reader to make an imaginative connection with long dead historical figures.”

— Sara Sheridan

God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Reinvent your business constantly. The end goal may be the same, but the tools and methods are constantly evolving.

— Ken Tucker

The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information.

— Henry A. Wallace

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.

— Henry Adams

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods…

— Robert W. Floyd

A work of art can start you thinking about some aesthetic or philosophical problem; it can suggest some new method, some fresh…

— Francine Prose

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

— Rudolf Steiner

Science is merely an extremely powerful method of winnowing what's true from what feels good.

— Carl Sagan

Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind,…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.

— Archimedes

What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

— George Polya

I watched what method Nature might take, with intention of subduing the symptom by treading in her footsteps.

— Thomas Sydenham