The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Even while Jerusalem was standing and the Jews were at peace with us, the practice of their sacred rites was at variance… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are… — Plato Copy Share Image
My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends.… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The optimum portfolio depends on the various expectations of choices available and the degree of variance in performance which is tolerable. The… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
All sources are not equal. When you get information, you take the information, you evaluate it, and you do the best you… — Bill Belichick Copy Share Image
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We need to develop a robust set of tools - strategies and routines - that help us address student variance. It's easy… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the… — Bruce Babbitt Copy Share Image
There is one thing of which I can assure you. If good performance of the fund is even a minor objective, any… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
In so far as men are influenced by envy or any kind of hatred, one towards another, they are at variance, and… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference… — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an… — Harry Markowitz Copy Share Image
To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
I believe we should really take our own phenomenology more seriously. What a good theory of conscious must explain is the variance… — Thomas Metzinger Copy Share Image
The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time to have… — Michael Steinhardt Copy Share Image
