Criterion Quotes

121 Criterion quotes by 105 unique authors

Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were… — Ilka Chase
Profit is the sole criterion used by the establishment to evaluate economic activity. From the rat race to lame ducks. The vocabulary in vogue is… — Jimmy Reid
The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time. — Peter Bogdanovich
I don't lead a particularly Bohemian existence. The main criterion for me is not to be judgemental of other people so long as what they… — Nick Clegg
By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion… — Steven Chu
Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace.Â But there is no true peace without truth!Â There cannot be true peace if… — Pope Francis
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead,… — John Charles Polanyi
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards. — Bruce Tulgan
A man's penmanship is an unfailing index of his character, moral and mental, and a criterion by which to judge his peculiarities of taste and… — Bill Vaughan
Twenty five percent of Israeli citizens are not even Jewish. Anybody can become an Israeli citizen if you qualify. Religion is not a criterion for… — Alan Dershowitz
If we are to take for the criterion of truth the majority of suffrages, they ought to be gotten from those philosophic and patriotic citizens… — James Madison
Appetite is essentially insatiable, and where it operates as a criterion of both action and enjoyment (that is, everywhere in the Western world since the… — Marshall McLuhan
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what… — Barack Obama
Allah says in the Qur'an not to despise one another. So the criterion in Islam is not color or social status. It's who is most… — Hakeem Olajuwon
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary… — Carl Rogers
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth. — Eleanor Roosevelt
The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts.… — Lysander Spooner
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. — George Washington

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