"To speak seriously: the standards of "goodness" which……" — Bertrand Russell

More Calculated Quotes

This quote is filed under Calculated Quotes, one of 210 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• 'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year… — Annie Besant
• A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you… — Unknown Author
• Furthermore, they had calculated that if 25,000 of them died for every one of us, they would finish with us… — Hernando Cortes
• Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates… — Tom Platz
• Anger can be an effective negotiating tool, but only as a calculated act, never as a reaction. — Mark McCormack
• The Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life...The Bible...should be read in… — Benjamin Rush
• A champion plays the game; a spectator observes, criticizes and never really gets to live. A champion knows what he… — Bruce Jenner
• Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child. — Wes Fesler
• Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance.… — Mary McGrory
• In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
• [Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers… — W. W. Rouse Ball
• Romances, in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination than to inform the judgment. — Samuel Richardson

See all 210 Calculated Quotes »