Misapplied Quotes

13 quotes by 11 authors

Censorship laws are blunt instruments, not sharp scalpels. Once enacted, they are easily misapplied to merely unpopular or only marginally dangerous speech. — Alan Dershowitz
But cool and candid people will at once reflect, that the purest of human blessings must have a portion of alloy in them, that the… — James Madison
Ignorance is better than knowledge misapplied. — Norm MacDonald
We live in a world of unused and misapplied knowledge and skill. — H.G. Wells
I see the Koran very much as an outsider. It stands in the great prophetic tradition of trying to return people to the basic principles… — Tony Blair
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied. — Sloane Crosley
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that… — James Madison
Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified. — William Shakespeare
The reason it's worth standing up for punctuation is not that it's an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have… — Lynne Truss
Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion… — Carl Sagan
The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready… — Arnold Bennett
Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with little… — John Locke
Science is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being. — Carl Sagan

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