Susceptible Quotes

147 quotes by 135 authors

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is. — Dante Alighieri
Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character is dependent upon education, and… — Giacomo Casanova
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride… — Anthony of Padua
You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence. — Carl Jung
Creativity requires introspection, self-examination, and a willingness to take risks. Because of this, artists are perhaps more susceptible to self-doubt and despair than those who… — Eric Maisel
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell
The initial stage, the act of conceiving or inventing a theory, seems to me neither to call for logical analysis nor to be susceptible of… — Karl Popper
We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems,… — George Washington
The problem with intelligent-design theory, is not that it is false but that it is not falsifiable. Not being susceptible to contradicting evidence, it is… — George Will
War is an art and as such is not susceptible of explanation by fixed formula — George S. Patton
For the little that one has reflected on the origin of our knowledge, it is easy to perceive that we can acquire it only by… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
[All phenomena] are equally susceptible of being calculated, and all that is necessary, to reduce the whole of nature to laws similar to those which… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. — Oscar Wilde
Without undervaluing any other human agency, it may be safely affirmed that the Common School, improved and energized, as it can easily be, may become… — Horace Mann
It's very important that we expand our use of clean energy and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and ethanol are better for the… — Julia Roberts
Power tends to confuse itself with virtue, and a great nation is peculiarly susceptible to the idea that its power is a sign of God's… — J. William Fulbright
These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion… — Pope Pius IX
Frequent elections are unquestionably the only policy by which this dependence and sympathy can be effectually secured. But what particular degree of frequency may be… — James Madison
I love eulogies. They are the most moving kind of speech because they attempt to pluck meaning from the fog, and on short order, when… — Peggy Noonan
Psychiatrists declare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes... What kinds of emotional factors tire the sedentary (or sitting) worker?… — Dale Carnegie

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