Cogent Quotes
20 quotes by 19 authors
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I don't want to just do independent movies and I don't want to just do adventure films. I enjoy both, and I think both are…
— Nicolas Cage
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What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the…
— Hermann Bondi
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I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is weaker than I…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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But at the same time, there must never be the least hesitation in giving up a position the moment it is shown to be untenable.…
— William Bayliss
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If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of…
— Anthony Storr
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Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what…
— Andrei Shleifer
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My point of view, while extremely cogent, is unpopular. . . . That the repressive nature of the legalities vis-a-vis drugs are destroying the legal…
— Jack Nicholson
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I believe that dance is the oldest, noblest and most cogent of the arts. I believe that dance is the most perfect symbol of the…
— Ted Shawn
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Power is being able to say complete and utter nonsense and have it be believed, powerlessness is where no matter how much cogent evidence and…
— Catharine MacKinnon
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I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Every work of art reaches man in his inner powers. It reaches him more profoundly and insidiously than any rational proposition, either cogent demonstration or…
— Jacques Maritain
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So successful has the ideological-political-cultural purge been executed that it is hard indeed to find vigorous liberals, and no energetic, coherent and cogent leftists at…
— Kenny Smith
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Rules of Play is an exhaustive, clear, cogent, and complete resource for understanding games and game design. Salen and Zimmerman describe an encyclopedia of game…
— Nathan Shedroff
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The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and…
— Jacob Bronowski
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
— John Stuart Mill
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[...] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is…
— Woody Allen
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Truth is not only a matter of offense, in that it makes certain assertions. It is also a matter of defense in that it must…
— Ravi Zacharias
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One curious result of this inertia, which deserves to rank among the fundamental 'laws' of nature, is that when a discovery has finally won tardy…
— F. C. S. Schiller
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This piece was cogent, well-wrtetin, and pithy.
— Sewana
Who Wrote These Cogent Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 20 Cogent Quotes as follows: