Tacit Quotes

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Money doesn't mind if we say it's evil, it goes from strength to strength. It's a fiction, an addiction, and a tacit conspiracy. — Martin Amis
There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles. — John Donne
Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the… — Mignon McLaughlin
Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of… — Will Eisner
Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it. — Pierre Bourdieu
Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. — Phillip E. Johnson
Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgement that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and… — William F. Buckley, Jr.
One of the basics of a good system of innovation is diversity. In some ways, the stronger the culture (national, institutional, generational, or other), the… — Nicholas Negroponte
The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism. — George Soros
The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage,… — Peter A. Levine
True values are not taught and declared, they evolve through the acts and interaction of the living, they are understood at a near tacit level… — Dave Snowden
While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or… — Michael Polanyi
Agile methods derive much of their agility by relying on the tacit knowledge embodied in the team, rather than writing the knowleadge down in plans. — Barry Boehm
Are our ways of teaching students to ask some questions always correlative with our ways of teaching them not to ask - indeed, to be… — Barbara Johnson
It's difficult for people to come to the understanding that only a small minority of the people ever really get the word about life, about… — Earl Nightingale
Tacit knowledge is one of the most important concepts of current scholarship in the humanities. Ambitious and important, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge is a well-written… — Robert P. Crease
All the analysis of infinite reality which the finite human mind can conduct rests on the tacit assumption that only a finite portion of this… — Max Weber
Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions. — Edsger Dijkstra
Those who seek consolation in existing churches often pay for their peace of mind with a tacit agreement to ignore a great deal of what… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be… — Mark Twain

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