Well Understood Quotes
31 quotes by 29 authors
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The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the cycle of famine…
— James Buchan
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Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.
— Noam Chomsky
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our…
— Alexander Hamilton
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
— Albert J. Nock
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"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God? Of course not.…
— Swami Vivekananda
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The important distinction so well understood in America between a constitution established by the people, and unalterable by the government; and a law established by…
— James Madison
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But, as Bacon has well pointed out, truth is more likely to come out of error, if this is clear and definite, than out of…
— William Bayliss
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It is now well understood that humans ultimately depend on the health of the planet for their wellbeing.
— Peter Garrett
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Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us,…
— Florence Nightingale
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It is unfortunately none too well understood that, just as the State has no money of its own, so it has no power of its…
— Albert J. Nock
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There is a tendency to consider anything in human behavior that is unusual, not well known, or not well understood, as neurotic, psychopathic, immature, perverse,…
— Alfred Kinsey
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Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
— Edward Norton Lorenz
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Risk management is the most important thing to be well understood. Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position…
— Bruce Kovner
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While love is common, true love is rare, and I believe that few people are fortunate enough to experience it. The roads of regular love…
— David Buss
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The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties.
— Thomas Jefferson
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The risks facing hedge funds are non-linear and more complex than those facing traditional asset classessuch risks are currently not widely appreciated or well-understood
— Andrew Lo
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In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows, for details are swallowed up in principles. The details for knowledge which are important, will be picked…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do…
— Iain Banks
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This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,…
— Robert Grosseteste
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Always laugh when you can; it is cheap medicine. Merriment is a philosophy not well understood. It is the sunny side of existence.
— Lord Byron
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