Generally Accepted Quotes

32 quotes by 30 authors

• Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within… — David Sarnoff
• It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic… — Leo Buscaglia
• Theology asserts propositions that cannot be proven true; ideologues hold stoutly to a worldview despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as reality. When… — Bill Moyers
• One of the principal obstacles to the rapid diffusion of a new idea lies in the difficulty of finding suitable expression to convey its essential… — Arthur Schuster
• Scientific modes of thought cannot be developed and become generally accepted unless people renounce their primary, unreflecting, and spontaneous attempt to understand all their experience… — Norbert Elias
• I am not here as a public official, but as a citizen of a troubled world who finds hope in a growing consensus that the… — Jimmy Carter
• It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic… — Leo Buscaglia
• The generally accepted view is that markets are always right -- that is, market prices tend to discount future developments accurately even when it is… — George Soros
• In Germany air became generally accepted Berlin in this area. It operated with 45 airplanes within the Low Cost range from Germany, and is one… — Niki Lauda
• In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen. — Jacky Ickx
• [...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an… — G. Edward Griffin
• If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles. — Lawrence Summers
• What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Derek Freeman
• Aristotle suggests that the rotating Earth was a generally accepted tenet of Pythagorism: "While most of those who hold that the whole heaven is finite… — Aristotle
• There are many examples of this mistaken idea of freedom, such as the elimination of human life by legalized or generally accepted abortion. — Pope John Paul II
• No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. — Ferdinand Mount
• The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
• When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported… — Claude Bernard
• ..The truly fraudulent claims must be discarded. But novel methods of therapy should not be rejected because they are novel, or because they run counter… — Linus Pauling
• In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to… — Victor Davis Hanson

Who Wrote These Generally Accepted Quotes

30 authors contributed a total of 32 Generally Accepted Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Generally Accepted Quotes by Leo Buscaglia
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Claude Bernard
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Linus Pauling
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Victor Davis Hanson
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Pope John XXIII
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Paul Feyerabend
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Galileo Galilei
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Savitri Devi
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Desiderius Erasmus
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by George Henry Lewes
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by George S. Patton
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Hannah Arendt
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Stanley Kubrick
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by John Ruskin
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Ambrose Bierce
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by David Sarnoff
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Bill Moyers
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Arthur Schuster
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Norbert Elias
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Jimmy Carter
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by George Soros
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Niki Lauda
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by Jacky Ickx
• 1 Generally Accepted Quote by G. Edward Griffin