Tacit Quotes
31 quotes by 31 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.
— George Soros
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Beware of "the real world". A speaker's apeal to it is always an invitation not to challenge his tacit assumptions.
— Edsger Dijkstra
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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
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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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