Coherence Quotes

70 quotes by 69 authors

A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is… — Dana Spiotta
All around us, aspects of the modern world - diet, exercise, medicine, art, work, family, philosophy, economics, ecology, psychology - have begun a long circle… — Paul Shepard
Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your… — Epictetus
No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance;… — Samuel Johnson
In our view any awareness is an increment to consciousness, an added light, a reinforcement of psychic coherence. Its swiftness or instantaneity can hide this… — Gaston Bachelard
Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing. — Luis Bunuel
When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this… — Michael King
Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence. — Deepak Chopra
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind… — Daniel Kahneman
Amid chaos of images, we value coherence. We believe in the printed word. And we believe in clarity. And we believe in immaculate syntax. And… — William Shawn
My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience… — Kenneth Tynan
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy… — Don DeLillo
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence… — Christian Lous Lange
In the evolution of mankind there has always been a certain degree of social coherence. — Herbert Read
In my view the structure of the whole atom was that of an individual, with all its parts interconnected, and the emission of a spectral… — Johannes Stark
As a reporter you tend to seek coherence from your subject or your source - it all needs to add up and make sense. In… — Amy Waldman
With acknowledgement of residues, we can be more easily prepared to grant the unit of science, the overlapping of disciplines, and the total coherence of… — Kenneth Lee Pike
Pure earth does not petrify, because the predominance of dryness over [i.e. in] the earth endows it not with coherence but rather with crumbliness. In… — Avicenna
What the French want is coherence, stability and justice. If I am in a favorable position today, it's because my fellow citizens want to make… — Francois Hollande

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