Topics Quotes
333 quotes by 285 authors
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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think that consciousness has always been the most important topic in the philosophy of mind, and one of the most important topics in cognitive…
— David Chalmers
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To preserve yourself as the center of the world, to stay your own best authority on everything, your own expert on all topics, infallible, omniscient.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
— William James
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No aphorism is more frequently repeated in connection with field trials, than that we must ask Nature few questions, or, ideally, one question, at a…
— Ronald Fisher
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Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.
— Samuel Johnson
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..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they…
— David Hume
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There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,…
— James Madison
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I have a good idea every two years. Give me a topic, I will give you the idea! [Reputed to have been a remark made…
— Fritz Zwicky
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Bullshit is unavoidable when circumstances require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about. Thus, the production of bullshit is stimulated whenever a…
— Harry Frankfurt
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The issues involved are sufficiently important that courses are now moving out of the philosophy departments and into mainstream computer science. And they affect everyone.…
— D. Michael Quinn
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If there's only one answer, then this must not be a very interesting topic.
— Ron Jeffries
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True knowledge comes with deep understanding of a topic and its inner workings.
— Albert Einstein
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Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within…
— Albert Einstein
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Usually, if you have a new idea, you very rarely break through to anything like recognizable development or implementation of that idea the first time…
— Martin Fleischmann
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As one reads mathematics, one needs to have an active mind, asking questions, forming mental connections between the current topic and other ideas from other…
— William Thurston
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As long as men inquire, they will find opportunities to know more upon these topics than those who have gone before them, so inexhaustibly rich…
— Louis Agassiz
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Thanks to my solid academic training, today I can write hundreds of words on virtually any topic without possessing a shred of information which is…
— Dave Barry
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Throughout my career, I've always portrayed characters that were humorous, but also weren't afraid to speak their minds, especially when it came to racy or…
— Betty White
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My favorite water cooler topic is fantasy football. I used to make fun of friends for doing it and now I'm obsessed.
— John Krasinski
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