Tentative Quotes

55 quotes by 53 authors

Throughout our lives friends enclose us like pairs of parentheses. They shift our boundaries; crater our terrain. They fume through the cracks of our tentative… — Beth Kephart
Iâ€™m much better at working out ideas in action than I am in theorizing about it and then transferring my thinking to action. I donâ€™t… — Myles Horton
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena. — Louis Pasteur
Philosophy arises from an unusually obstinate attempt to arrive at real knowledge. What passes for knowledge in ordinary life suffers from three defects: it is… — Bertrand Russell
The precision of hisskill places his work beyond the tentative and the experimental stage. He is continually searching and exploring both himself and his surroundings.… — Edward Steichen
While its [Harvard's] undergraduate life was still controlled [in 1908-1912] by a select group of rich and fashionable families whose sons merely arrived when they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
It seems to me that the evidence ... is opposed to the view that the spirals are individual galaxies comparable with our own. In fact,… — Harlow Shapley
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative… — Ambrose Bierce
Watercolour painting is notoriously difficult - so much depends on directness and speed, and certainty of intention. Tentative or fumbling touches are disastrous, for they… — Walter J. Phillips
I've seen people spend days, if not months, researching and gathering data, but only at the end did they finally figure out what they were… — Robert Pozen
While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in… — Colm Toibin
It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic;… — Bertrand Russell
Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark,… — Justina Chen
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just… — Julia Cameron
But sometimes, maybe most times, it isn't that clear. It is dark and you are near the edge of a cliff, but you're moving slowly,… — Harlan Coben
I mean to say, really, I am near to developing a neurosis - is there anyone around who doesn't want to study or kill me?"… — Gail Carriger
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so… — Joseph Campbell
I caught the look Benjamin gave me. "What?" "Nothing. We just thought a svetocha would be more, well, difficult." Leon's mouth twitched. "I do seriously… — Lilith Saintcrow
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I… — Brennan Manning
All scholarship, like all science, is an ongoing, open-ended discussion in which all conclusions are tentative forever, the principal value and charm of the game… — Hugh Nibley

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