Dictum Quotes

44 quotes by 40 authors

While the nature of Texas fever is by no means made clear as yet, we are able to affirm that ticks can produce it. Whether… — Theobald Smith
Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around… — William Carlos Williams
Scientists themselves readily admit that they do not fully understand the consequences of our many-faceted assault upon the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and… — Prince Charles
The brain seems a thoroughfare for nerve-action passing its way to the motor animal. It has been remarked that Life's aim is an act not… — Charles Scott Sherrington
In science there is a dictum: don't add an experiment to an experiment. Don't make things unnecessarily complicated. In writing fiction, the more fantastic the… — Ben Bova
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. — Ludwig von Mises
Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art.… — Edith Wharton
Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back… — John le Carre
No one in our society needs to be told that exercise is good for us. Whether you are overweight or have a chronic illness or… — Sonja Lyubomirsky
CARTESIAN, adj. Relating to Descartes, author of 'Cogito ergo sum' to demonstrate the reality of human existence. The dictum might be improved 'Cogito cogito ergo… — Ambrose Bierce
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your… — Rose Tremain
In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified remains a stranger… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum… — Henry Hazlitt
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood. — Lewis Mumford
Good design is not about form following function. It is function with cultural content. By adding "cultural content" to the concept of "form follows function,"… — Carl Magnusson
An ancient dictum says that when Zeus wanted to destroy someone, he would first drive him mad. — Jean-Marie Le Pen
I slept in black tents, blue tents, skin tents, yurts of felt and windbreaks of thorns. One night, caught in a sandstorm in the Western… — Bruce Chatwin
The maxim is, that whatever can be affirmed (or denied) of a class, may be affirmed (or denied) of everything included in the class. This… — John Stuart Mill
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be… — Aldo Leopold
The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And it… — T.C. Boyle

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