Constructs Quotes

307 quotes by 279 authors

The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It… — Paul Ricoeur
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the… — Jared Diamond
A language possesses utility only insofar as it can construct conventional boundaries. A language of no boundaries is no language at all, and thus the… — Ken Wilber
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and… — Galen
Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative. — Dennis Potter
My wish is to construct a system of sociology on the model of celestial mechanics, physics, and chemistry. — Vilfredo Pareto
We take the side of science in spite of the patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of its failure to fulfill many… — Richard Lewontin
I don't know how to construct a career that'll make me famous. Except maybe get my ears pinned back, get my teeth done, and go… — Ian Hart
Our civilization is characterized by the word "progress." Progress is its form rather than making progress being one of its features. Typically it constructs. It… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
A man who has been born into the house of a warrior and yet places no loyalty in his heart and thinks only of the… — Torii Mototada
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye… — Duane Michals
Privacy is not a static construct. It is not an inherent property of any particular information or setting. It is a process by which people… — danah boyd
Many people help construct our attitudes at a certain time and place. — John C. Maxwell
We know only what we do, what we make, what we construct; and all that we make, all that we construct, are realities. I call… — Naum Gabo
If we play genie and grant client wishes, we are apt to construct castles of code in the air. — Larry Constantine
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth. — George Bernard Shaw
I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business in the green meadows, admit… — Richard Jefferies
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never… — Leonardo da Vinci
The most ordinary things are to philosophy a source of insoluble puzzles. With infinite ingenuity it constructs a concept of space or time and then… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Fractals, the theory of relativity, the genome: these are magnificently beautiful constructs. — Adam Savage

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