Criterion Quotes

121 Criterion quotes by 105 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems. — Mahnaz Afkhami
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
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success. — Edmund Burke
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
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
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
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
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
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
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth. — George Bancroft
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
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
Money-giving is a very good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people. — Karl Menninger Dr
What a theologian feels as true, must be false: one has therein almost a criterion of truth — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every person is the incorporation of some attribute but do not meet the criterion of the individual life — Mak_786

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