Lowered reliability obviously yields a lesser competence. But lowered breadth does so as well. — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
As thou these ashes, little brook, wilt bear Into the Avon, Avon to the tide Of Severn, Severn to the narrow seas,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
As soon as the circumstances of an experiment are well known, we stop gathering statistics. ... The effect will occur always without… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Rules and particular inferences alike are justified by being brought into agreement with each other. A rule is amended if it yields… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
Wit is brushwood; judgment, timber; the one gives the greatest flame, the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make… — Thomas Overbury Copy Share Image
Cicadas, buckling and unbuckling their stomach muscles, yield the sound of someone sharpening scissors. Fall field crickets, the thermometer hounds, add high-pitched… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
A strong plan of action will yield you quantum results and will ensure that you don’t fall into the familiar patterns of… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight… — Shirley Jackson Copy Share Image
I am one whose faith is, that love and friendship, with ardent natures, are like those trees of the torrid zone which… — Edward John Trelawny Copy Share Image
To get the most out of your life, plant in your mind seeds of constructive power that will yield fruitful results. — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
He who seeks to approach his own buried past must conduct himself like a man digging... This confers the tone and bearing… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
December finds himself again a child Even as he undergoes his age. Cold and early darkness now descends, Embracing sanctuaries of delight.… — Nick Gordon Copy Share Image
If we practice the science of yoga, which is useful to the entire human community and which yields happiness both here and… — K. Pattabhi Jois Copy Share Image
Even before I came to Chicago, I had gotten interested in the existence of dispersion of prices under conditions which economic theory… — George Stigler Copy Share Image
It is steady, reliable, tough. It never yields to panic. It is never defeated one-sidedly. It achieves everything attainable by character and… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
Men will be held accountable for the things which they have and not for the things they have not. ... All the… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
The possessions God allows us to have are intended for our use, not our enjoyment. Trying to squeeze something out of them… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The idea that certain things in life - and in the universe - don't yield up their secrets is something that requires… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
