Said Quotes
22477 Said quotes by 7737 unique authors
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Scepticism, ironically, draws its life's blood from claims to have a good deal of knowledge. For example, your friends claim to know, 'Since every possible…
— William Lane Craig
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There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much…
— Clifford Truesdell
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I doubt that Fleming could have obtained a grant for the discovery of penicillin on that basis [a requirement for highly detailed research plans] because…
— Hans Selye
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I used to tell the story about as a young man in high school one of the professors came in and put a broad white…
— Kofi Annan
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I thought, 'OK, Melissa Gilbert is playing my mom, and I'm playing her old role - no pressure.' So I went up to Melissa and…
— Kara Lindsay
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I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were…
— Cory Monteith
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When they took the Fourth Amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the Sixth Amendment, I kept quiet because I…
— Unknown Author
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Google's a strange place. When I met Eric Schmidt, he said, "If you are kind to everybody, then you will make good decisions because people…
— Larry Brilliant
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For an individual we distinguish integrity as a matter of that person's word being whole and complete, and for a group or organizational entity as…
— Werner Erhard
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Oversimplifying somewhat, honoring your word as we define it means you either keep your word (do what you said you would do and by the…
— Werner Erhard
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In our culture, snails are not considered valiant animals - we are constantly exhorting people to "come out of their shells" - but there's a…
— Susan Cain
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It has been said that to write is to live forever. The man who said that is dead.
— Tina Fey
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Within weeks of our premiere, it became obvious that Leonard [Nimoy] and the character of Spock were becoming something of a national phenomenon. ... And…
— William Shatner
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There may never be anything new to say, but there is always a new way to say it, and since, in art, the way of…
— Flannery O'Connor
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People habituate themselves to let things pass through their minds, as one may speak, rather than to think of them. Thus by use they become…
— Joseph Butler
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Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it.
— Leo Tolstoy
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You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz…
— Unknown Author
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Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had substituted the indefinite…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first…
— Thomas Nagel
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Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their…
— Alvin Plantinga
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Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially…
— Bill Bowerman
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Expand your love, your consciousness, and your loving compassion by experiencing everything that everyone does or says as though you had done or said it.
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was…
— Alan Watts
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Heaven does nothing: its non-doing is its serenity. Earth does nothing: its non-doing is its rest. From the union of these two non-doings All actions…
— Zhuangzi
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As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome…
— M. Scott Peck
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