Partial Quotes

214 quotes by 194 authors

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form… — Margaret Atwood
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial… — A. R. Ammons
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them. — M. Scott Peck
Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is… — Zoe Lofgren
Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect… — Murray Gell-Mann
Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon. — Cate Blanchett
The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears… — Mark Twain
O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and… — Leonardo da Vinci
I am convinced that it is impossible to expound the methods of induction in a sound manner, without resting them upon the theory of probability.… — William Stanley Jevons
You look at science (or at least talk of it) as some sort of demoralising invention of man, something apart from real life, and which… — Rosalind Franklin
At the outset do not be worried about this big question-Truth. It is a very simple matter if each one of you starts with the… — William Osler
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. — Henry David Thoreau
Will not perhaps the temporal power of Islam return and with it the menace of an armed Mohammedan world, which will shake off the domination… — Hilaire Belloc
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek… — George Sand
How did Biot arrive at the partial differential equation? [the heat conduction equation] . . . Perhaps Laplace gave Biot the equation and left him… — Clifford Truesdell
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an… — Charles Baudelaire
I believe the entertainment industry cannot portray on film people gunned down in cold blood, in living color, and not have it affect the attitudes… — M. Russell Ballard

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