Method Quotes
1671 quotes by 1198 authors
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Life and liberty can be as much endangered from illegal methods used to convict those thought to be criminals as from the actual criminals themselves.
— Earl Warren
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I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.
— Paul Weller
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The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.
— Woodrow Wilson
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We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a…
— Woodrow Wilson
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new…
— Virginia Woolf
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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the…
— Mao Zedong
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Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on…
— Julian Baggini
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During the nineteenth century, the rapid emergence and proliferation of new manufacturing methods and building technologies led to the establishment of polytechnic schools that concentrated…
— Martin Filler
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Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional…
— Martin Filler
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When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think…
— Albert Einstein
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind…
— Neil Postman
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I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better to go at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing…
— Pat Conroy
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The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a different truth: the…
— Shelby Foote
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Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it…
— John F. Kennedy
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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The way out is through the door. Why is it that no one will use this method?
— Confucius
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Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will…
— Frank Herbert
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