Incomplete Quotes
293 quotes by 257 authors
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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
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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
— Emile M. Cioran
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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
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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
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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
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Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!
— Robert Browning
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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
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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