Sterile Quotes

125 Sterile quotes by 114 unique authors

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something… — Emile M. Cioran
Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking. — Gustav Mahler
You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and… — James Salter
Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word academic in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation. — Myron Tribus
You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact… — Douglas Coupland
Vaguely conscious of that great suspense in which we live, we find our escape from its sterile, annihilating reality in many dreams, in religion, passion,… — Arthur Symons
Indeed science alone may perhaps be sterile when pursued without an understanding of the world in which scientific knowledge is created and in which the… — Polykarp Kusch
All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity. — Desire-Joseph Mercier
So many celebrity websites you go to are so sterile that you know they just pay somebody to do it and there's not even an… — Cindy Margolis
Yet, most every corporate effort to graft this truly innovative practices into their culture has failed because, again and again, people reduce the living practice… — Peter Senge
Salvation does not lie where strong thrones are defended by swords, where the smoke of censers ascend to heaven or where thousands of strong men… — Adam Weishaupt
Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models. — Robert Higgs
Claim your place in the sun and go forward into the light. The tools are there; the path is known; you simply have to turn… — Terence McKenna
The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find. — Freda Adler
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. — Jean-Paul Sartre
In 1966 Rolf Edberg wrote "This is mankind's home", "in the narrow borderland between the deathly heat beneath our feet and the coldness of space… — Margot Wallstrom
It all seemed a hollow sham now - that strict code, that conscientious virtue that condemned her to the sterile joys of pious women! No,… — Emile Zola
And more than once in the course of time, the same theme reappears: among the mystics of the fifteenth century, it has become the motif… — Michel Foucault
Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness… — William O. Douglas
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such discussions: moral principles… — Ayn Rand
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory. — Federica Montseny
A theology without spirituality would be a sterile academic exercise. — John Macquarrie
We often say 'love' when we really mean, and are acting out, an addiction-a sterile, ingrown dependency relationship, with another person serving as the object… — Stanton Peele
Human altruism which is not egoism, is sterile. — Marcel Proust
In real life wishing, divorced from willing, is sterile and begets nothing. — Cynthia Ozick

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