Unsound Quotes

42 quotes by 40 authors

Too much work, too much vacation, too much of any one thing is unsound. — Walter Annenberg
It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading. — Walter Annenberg
By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind. — Huineng
The main cause of my difficulties stemmed from the tragedy of my daughter's unsound birth and my inability to face my feelings. — Gene Tierney
One correspondent, who is into psychology, notes that in his experience people who are hoplophobes are nearly always nutty in other ways, too. Hoplophobia [fear… — Jeff Cooper
Psychoanalytic theory is the most stupendous intellectual confidence trick of the twentieth century and a terminal product as well-something akin to a dinosaur or zeppelin… — Peter Medawar
A win by an unsound combination, however showy, fills me with artistic horror — Wilhelm Steinitz
Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones...You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions… — Paul Krugman
I personally cannot in good faith continue to contribute to a process [IPCC process] that I view as both being motivated by pre-conceived agendas and… — Christopher Landsea
World War II revealed two of the enduring features of the Keynesian Revolution. One was the moral difference between spending for welfare and spending for… — John Kenneth Galbraith
It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications of a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and… — Pope Pius X
There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the… — George F. Kennan
[Mr. Gifford] made it much his business to deliver the people of God from all those false and unsound rests that by nature we are… — John Bunyan
The theory that everyone acts from self-interest, direct or indirect, is psychologically unsound. . . . Throughout history . . . there have been millions… — Corliss Lamont
The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral. — Jon Kyl
At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software… — Tony Hoare
There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human… — J C Ryle
Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground. — Nick Drake
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them… — Beverley Nichols
That renunciation of human closeness, of our deepest instincts: is it, in the end, simply too much to ask? Good men-sound, healthy men-can't make the… — Jennifer Haigh

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