Indeterminate Quotes
17 quotes by 16 authors
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Despite our preparation, indeed, despite our age, [the death of a parent] dislodges things deep in us, sets off reactions that surprise us and may…
— Joan Didion
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Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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There is, however, a moral basis for the vegetarian diet for which the indeterminate value of an animal's life takes on irrelevance. And that moral…
— Howard Lyman
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For man as an historical creature has desires of indeterminate dimensions.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a…
— John Murray
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But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and…
— Peter Thiel
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Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into…
— Peter J. Carroll
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When God picks out a man and speaks to him, it is to engage him in a work, an action. Nowhere in Scripture do we…
— Jacques Ellul
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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
— Immanuel Kant
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The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause…
— Claude Bernard
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I do not ... reject the use of statistics in medicine, but I condemn not trying to get beyond them and believing in statistics as…
— Claude Bernard
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You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life,…
— Elbert Hubbard
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Although it was constructed in 1536, the New York subway system boasts an annual maintenance budget of nearly $8, currently stolen, and it does a…
— Dave Barry
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If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those…
— Howard Gardner
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I want to support the view that the foundation of reality itself is a unified, indeterminate maze of possibilities.
— Danah Zohar
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Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts; it…
— Antonin Sertillanges
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One of the worst things about breaking the law is that it puts one at odds with an indeterminate number of other people. This is…
— Sam Harris
Who Wrote These Indeterminate Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 17 Indeterminate Quotes as follows: