Detect Quotes
168 quotes by 148 authors
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I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let…
— Frank Herbert
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Advice is offensive, not because it lays us open to unexpected regret, or convicts us of any fault which had escaped our notice, but because…
— Samuel Johnson
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Even though . . . 9/11 happened because . . . Bush's FBI and CIA did not detect the Al Qaeda conspiracy . . .…
— Vincent Bugliosi
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Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before…
— George Eliot
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Even Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, and Albert Einstein made serious mistakes. But the scientific enterprise arranges things so that teamwork prevails:…
— Carl Sagan
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Don't hesitate to seek external help or advice where need be. Sometimes, it takes an external, emotionally unattached individual to detect your business flaws and…
— Richard Branson
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The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego…
— Eckhart Tolle
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We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.
— Daniel Kahneman
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By concentrating our attention on the effect rather than the causes, we can avoid the laborious, nearly impossible task of trying to detect and deflect…
— Robert Cialdini
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If you grow up in a WEIRD society, you become so well educated in the ethic of autonomy that you can detect oppression and inequality…
— Jonathan Haidt
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They say much about the Einstein's theory now. According to Einstein the ether does not exist and many people agree with him. But it is…
— Nikola Tesla
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So much of the work is intuitive. The resistance you detect is just that, a kind of evasion, a sense that too much analysis will…
— Peter Weir
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There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free…
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
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There's a lot of differing data [about global warming], but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this…
— Dennis Miller
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You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.
— Lily Allen
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A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.
— Chris Hedges
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The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into…
— Adolf Galland
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Einstein has a feeling for the central order of things. He can detect it in the simplicity of natural laws. We may take it that…
— Wolfgang Pauli
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