Best Susceptible Quotations
147 Susceptible quotes by 132 unique authors
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Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.
— Derek Bailey
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The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract…
— Ada Lovelace
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It is folly to imagine that the aggressive types, whether individuals or nations, can be bought off ... since the payment of danegeld stimulates a…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible…
— Ferdinand von Mueller
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Susceptible persons are more affected by a change of tone that by unexpected words.
— George Eliot
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Eagles are very tolerant and very adaptable, but they have to get established first. When birds are setting up their breeding territory, they are the…
— Jim Elliot
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When everybody in a group is susceptible to similar biases, groups are inferior to individuals, because groups tend to be more extreme than individuals.
— Daniel Kahneman
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The numerous people who imagine that a long stay in the Polar regions makes a man less susceptible of cold than other mortals are completely…
— Roald Amundsen
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In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to…
— George Orwell
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The Obama administration's agenda of maximizing dependency involves political favoritism cloaked in the raiment of "economic planning" and "social justice" that somehow produce results superior…
— George Will
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You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of…
— Catherine the Great
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I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason.
— Roger Ebert
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People are pretty much alike. It's only that our differences are more susceptible to definition than our similarities.
— Linda Ellerbee
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Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.
— Brian Eno
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Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.
— Desiderius Erasmus
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I grew up in an entertainment family, and so I saw how susceptible you are to the ups and downs of this business.
— Will Ferrell
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The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
— John F. Kennedy
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Unions are susceptible to the same ills that befall all human societies.
— Tony Kushner
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All know the importance of sustaining the hopes of a sick man. The reason of this is that his nervous system is then, vastly more…
— Lysander Spooner
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Space enthusiasts are the most susceptible demographic to delusion that I have ever seen.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called…
— John Stuart Mill
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My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of "systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, cyst-susceptible sister," which is easier done…
— Daniel Handler
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In my experience, there are two things that no one will admit to: having no sense of humor and being susceptible to flattery.
— Margaret George
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Yes, what we are doing is probably mad, and probably it is good and necessary all the same. It is not a good thing when…
— Hermann Hesse
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