The goal of intellectual life should be to see and understand what is true, not merely to adhere to a prevailing orthodoxy. — Jeffrey Tucker Copy Share Image
Women compete, compare, undermine, and undercut one another - at least, that is the prevailing notion of how we interact. — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
If you carry the weather with you, then character is determined by the prevailing wind — Jamie O'Neill Copy Share Image
I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads. — Grace Paley Copy Share Image
The strategist's method is very simply to challenge the prevailing assumptions with a single question: Why? — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
The prevailing attitude of the speakers was one of heavy disagreement with a number of things which the reader had not said. — Ronald Knox Copy Share Image
I feel safe even in the midst of my enemies; for the truth is powerful and will prevail. — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the… — Dale T. Mortensen Copy Share Image
I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the… — Danny DeVito Copy Share Image
Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no… — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
Prayerless people cut themselves off from God's prevailing power, and the frequent result is the familiar feeling of being overwhelmed, overrun, beaten… — Bill Hybels Copy Share Image
I don’t know, I don’t feel right unless I’ve got the sea and mountains nearby. People are mostly a product of where… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As an actor, I've learned to become a detective. You have to figure out who that person is. If the character is… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
It seems very obvious that a vast majority of the American people are sick and tired of political correctness and prevailing partisanship… — James Robison Copy Share Image
When it comes to wheat, my main goal is to inform people, including farmers, that the prevailing notion that cutting fat and… — William Davis Copy Share Image
We greatly want a brief word to express the science of improving stock, which is by no means confined to questions of… — Francis Galton Copy Share Image
The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and… — Eden Ahbez Copy Share Image
The way of the martial artist is the way of enduring, surviving and prevailing over all that would destroy him. More than… — Toshitsugu Takamatsu Copy Share Image
The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
Christianity was neither original nor unique, but that the roots of much of the Judeo/ Christian tradition lay in the prevailing Kamite… — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
There is one prevailing key to success. Do what you resolve to do. Then you'll be a success. If you can discipline… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
If custom is to avail for proof of soundness, we too, surely, may advance our prevailing custom; and if they reject this,… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
Quite often I have been faced with people who were praised and admired for their talents and their achievements... According to prevailing… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
In the early days of my carer as an actor, I shared what was then the prevailing attitude of Negro performers :;that… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The prevailing view is that the easy way to stimulate economic growth is to have a low currency. — Gary Cohn Copy Share Image
Let there be then no coercion established in society, and the common law of gravity prevailing, the sexes will fall into their… — Judith Sargent Murray Copy Share Image
Science does not give us absolute and final certainty. It only gives us assurance within the limits of our mental abilities and… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Questioning the nature and implications of liminal instances necessarily involves failure, if only in the specifically technical sense of entering spaces where… — Brian Ferneyhough Copy Share Image
I guess I'm drawn to stories of people whose physicality puts them on the outside of things in order to explore the… — Marisa Silver Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But ultimately what I was impressed by during my years in government was how much the intellectual climate and the prevailing intellectual… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
The prevailing theory of capitalism suffers from one central and disabling flaw, a profound distrust and incomprehension of capitalism. — George Gilder Copy Share Image
The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
When the power, prestige, and financial support of government is placed behind a particular religious belief, the indirect coercive pressure upon religious… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
...Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed not to adhere to… — Vin Weber Copy Share Image
