Incomplete Quotes

293 quotes by 257 authors

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious,… — Russell Baker
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. — Emile M. Cioran
Much thought has at its root a dissatisfaction with what is. Wanting is the urge for the next moment to contain what this moment does… — Stephen Levine
In evolution, as in all areas of science, our knowledge is incomplete. But the entire success of the scientific enterprise has depended on an insistence… — Bruce Alberts
Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a… — Lloyd Mangrum
Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete! — Robert Browning
Many men build as cathedrals are built-the part nearest the ground finished, but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever… — Henry Ward Beecher
All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete. — Robert Louis Stevenson
I cannot affirm God if I fail to affirm man. Therefore, I affirm both. Without a belief in human unity I am hungry and incomplete.… — Norman Cousins
I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he… — Martin Seligman
The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical… — Werner Heisenberg
We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead… — William James
Most of the crackpot papers which are submitted to The Physical Review are rejected, not because it is impossible to understand them, but because it… — Freeman Dyson
There are a lot of very brilliant scholars who believe the reason we have incomplete science on evolution is that there is a higher power… — Bill O'Reilly
Life is never incomplete if it is an honorable one. At whatever point you leave life, if you leave it in the right way, it… — Seneca the Younger
Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was 'imagination made of… — Richard Leakey
The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to… — Rajneesh
Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity… — Dalai Lama
To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have… — Ernest L. Boyer
That our knowledge only illuminates a small corner of the Universe, that it is incomplete, approximate, tentative and merely probable need not concert us. It… — Arthur David Ritchie

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