Criterion Quotes
121 Criterion quotes by 105 unique authors
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New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to…
— Michael Eric Dyson
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Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read the lines written by the hand of a master…
— Henry Miller
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His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner…
— Milan Kundera
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The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Speciesism is morally objectionable because, like racism, sexism, and heterosexism, it links personhood with an irrelevant criterion. Those who reject speciesism are committed to rejecting…
— Gary L. Francione
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Indeed, the maligned American pastime of baseball may be by-far the greatest and best sport by one criterion, when it comes to emulating and training…
— David Brin
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In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
— Mahnaz Afkhami
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One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that... a chief criterion…
— Murray Gell-Mann
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The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
— Edmund Burke
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Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the…
— Richard Dawkins
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Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any…
— Richard Attias
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If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the…
— Stephen Covey
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I read little nonfiction, but I have no boundaries about the fiction I relish. The only unfailing criterion is that I can hitch my heart…
— Scott Turow
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The most important criterion is this: hire someone whose character and humility and attitude you would like to have reproduced in your church and in…
— John Ortberg
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Our empirical criterion for a series of theories is that it should produce new facts. The idea of growth and the concept of empirical character…
— Imre Lakatos
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If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
— George Bancroft
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I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question,…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment to friends; and that…
— George Washington
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Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
— Karl Menninger Dr
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What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Every person is the incorporation of some attribute but do not meet the criterion of the individual life
— Mak_786
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