« All Consequent Quotes
·
William Kingdon Clifford's Page
Consequent Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford
1 Consequent quote by William Kingdon Clifford
More Quotes by William Kingdon Clifford
William Kingdon Clifford has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a…
-
The danger to society is not merely that it should believe wrong things, though that is great enough; but that it should…
-
If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he may not…
-
When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits…
-
Remember that [scientific thought] is the guide of action; that the truth which it arrives at is not that which we can…
-
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra.
-
There is no scientific discoverer, no poet, no painter, no musician, who will not tell you that he found ready made his…
-
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the…
-
An atmosphere of beliefs and conceptions has been formed by the labours and struggles of our forefathers, which enables us to breathe…
-
Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions…
-
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has…
-
If a belief is not realized immediately in open deeds, it is stored up for the guidance of the future.
See all 31 quotes by William Kingdon Clifford »
More Consequent Quotes
Popular Consequent quotes from across the collection:
-
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice…
— Eldridge Cleaver
-
The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have…
— John Stuart Mill
-
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the…
— Whittaker Chambers
-
Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly…
— Tim Field
-
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It…
— Sri Aurobindo
-
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.
— Antony Flew
-
Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.
— Thomas Jefferson
-
Patriotism is "a very definite feeling of preference for one's own people or State above all other peoples and States, and a…
— Leo Tolstoy
-
Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their…
— Patrick Henry
-
When words such as painting and sculpture are used, they connote a whole tradition and imply a consequent acceptance of this tradition,…
— Sol LeWitt
-
The summation of human experience is being expanded at a prodigious rate, [but] the means we use for threading through the consequent…
— Vannevar Bush
-
To this war of every man against every man, this also in consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right…
— Thomas Hobbes
See all Consequent Quotes »
Browse William Kingdon Clifford Quotes by Category