Method Quotes

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Psychoanalysis cannot be considered a method of education if by education we mean the topiary art of clipping a tree into a beautiful artificial shape.… — Carl Jung
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as… — Ouida
What sets us against one another is not our aims-they all come to the same thing-but our methods, which are the fruit of our varied… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis
Most traditional methods of working on oneself are mostly pain centered. People get to repeat over and over their painful emotions without knowing how to… — Eugene Gendlin
We must have a new reformation. There must come a violent break with that irresponsible, amusement-mad, paganized pseudo-religion which passes today for the faith of… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
With method and logic one can accomplish anything. — Agatha Christie
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man)… — Andre Maurois
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang… — William Hazlitt
An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and… — Sigmund Freud
No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of… — John Ruskin
You have to put aside your ideology. Howsoever beautiful it looks, howsoever systematic it looks, howsoever philosophical you have made and decorated it, you have… — Rajneesh
Look for a tough wedge for a tough log. — Publilius Syrus
The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-minded culture, is employed to sensationalize, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical terms and statistical methods are… — Darrell Huff
History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods people… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try… — Franklin D. Roosevelt
As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduce their complexity; so truths that were discovered only by great… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
In spite of some bad experiences, I'm a firm believer in the trial and error method of learning. — Andy Rooney
The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance. — Albert Einstein
We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn… — Albert Einstein

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