Unfounded Quotes
30 quotes by 27 authors
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I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.
— Thomas Jefferson
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation.…
— Judith Orloff
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The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or…
— Thomas Paine
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Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry
— Eric S. Raymond
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The idea is quite unfounded that on entering into society we give up any natural rights.
— Thomas Jefferson
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To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to…
— Pierre-Paul Grasse
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Reports of a hurricane are unfounded.
— Michael Fish
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There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice, unfounded assertions, and…
— Helen Thompson Woolley
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Men at a distance, who have admired our systems of government unfounded in nature, are apt to accuse the rulers, and say that taxes have…
— Henry Knox
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[Do you worry unnecessarily about the future? Remember most fears are just False Evidence Appearing Real. Don't let unfounded fears rob you of the joys…
— Mark Twain
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The hypothesis of the supernatural and/or a supreme being is vague, unfounded, and inapplicable in any practical fashion
— PZ Myers
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Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released.
— Dan Miller
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Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is.
— James Agee
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If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
— Tim Ferriss
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The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded.
— Frederick William Borden
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority…
— Aldous Huxley
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The soldier is convinced that a certain indefinitely extendable time period is accorded him before he is killed, the burglar before he is caught, men…
— Marcel Proust
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At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I’m going to make the wildly unfounded assumption that Satara’s dead by your hand and not Tory’s. Now, stay with me on this, Cajun. My…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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