Acceptation Quotes

8 quotes by 8 authors

• The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it necessary, in a popular explanation of those… — Charles Babbage
• I have taken much pains to know everything that is esteemed worth knowing amongst men; but with all my reading, nothing now remains to comfort… — John Selden
• Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of books… — Henry Mackenzie
• Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience… — William Howard Taft
• In its narrowest acceptation, order means obedience. A government is said to preserve order if it succeeds in getting itself obeyed. — John Stuart Mill
• It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true. — Matthew Henry
• I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein… — Georges Bataille
• I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own… — William Hazlitt

Who Wrote These Acceptation Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 8 Acceptation Quotes as follows:

• 1 Acceptation Quote by Charles Babbage
• 1 Acceptation Quote by John Selden
• 1 Acceptation Quote by Henry Mackenzie
• 1 Acceptation Quote by William Howard Taft
• 1 Acceptation Quote by John Stuart Mill
• 1 Acceptation Quote by Matthew Henry
• 1 Acceptation Quote by Georges Bataille
• 1 Acceptation Quote by William Hazlitt