Applied Quotes

590 quotes by 514 authors

Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than… — Rene Descartes
Knowledge acquired in biological research is seldom directly applicable to human beings ... The results of scientific research, obtained under these conditions, cannot be applied… — John Boyd Orr
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. — Ninette de Valois
Murder is an offensive act. The term cannot be applied legitimately to any defensive act. — Benjamin Tucker
And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's… — Adriana Trigiani
A current pejorative adjective is narcissistic. Generally, a narcissist is anyone better looking than you are, but lately the adective is often applied to those… — Gore Vidal
The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning.… — Julian Huxley
The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and… — Elwyn Brooks White
Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed… — Winston Churchill
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the occasion they are applied to. Almost every wise saying has… — George Santayana
I did not believe political directives could be successfully applied to creative writing . . . not to poetry or fiction, which to be valid… — Langston Hughes
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not… — Neil Kinnock
There are cases where psychoanalysis works worse than anything else. But who said that psychoanalysis was to be applied always and everywhere. — Carl Jung
Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. — Aldous Huxley
It is hardly to be believed how spiritual reflections when mixed with a little physics can hold people's attention and give them a livelier idea… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
I am guilty of believing that the human race can be humanized and enriched in every spiritual inference through the saner and more beneficent processes… — Eugene V. Debs
It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It… — Hippocrates
I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that… — Indra Nooyi
Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world.… — Russell Kirk

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