Rigidly Quotes

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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we… — Martha Beck
I'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. — Alan Bennett
Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end… — Dan Brown
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody. — Agatha Christie
People in America, of course, live in all sorts of fashions, because they are foreigners, or unlucky, or depraved, or without ambition; people live like… — Margaret Mead
The purpose of a Christian education would not be merely to make men and women pious Christians: a system which aimed too rigidly at this… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at… — Thomas Huxley
After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing… — Henry Adams
The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and… — Amartya Sen
In a very real sense, therefore, advocacy of the doctrine of continuity [i.e evolutionism] has always necessitated on retreat from pure empiricism [i.e., logic an… — Michael Denton
Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal. — Lord Byron
Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell. — Pete Townshend
For the current of our spiritual life creeds, rituals and channels that may thwart or help, according to their fixity or openness. When a symbol… — Rabindranath Tagore
Most of us become so rigidly fixed in the ruts carved out by genetic programming and social conditioning that we ignore the options of choosing… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Nevertheless, if we contemplate a society with a somewhat stable wage-unit, with national characteristics which determine the propensity to consume and the preference for liquidity,… — John Maynard Keynes
The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable,… — Robert Frost
Investing in stocks is an art, not a science, and people who've been trained to rigidly quantify everything have a big disadvantage. — Peter Lynch
Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases… — George Polya
Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have… — Henry Knox
Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation. — Swami Vivekananda

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