Foxes Quote by Clifford Geertz Download Open image “I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything” — Clifford Geertz ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fox Hedgehog Foxes Hedgehog Think Hedgehogs Inveterate Inveterate Fox Should Think Try Thinking Trying
The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Collins’s understanding of the Fox-Hedgehog parable is questionable from the start. He suggests that people who have had the greatest impact on humanity—including Darwin,… — Philip M. Rosenzweig Copy Share Image
If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you. — Nikita Khrushchev Copy Share Image
If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
With but a single exception, foxes too enjoy the chase. — The Covert Comic Aka John Alejandro King Copy Share Image
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“One of the most significant facts about us may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to live a thousand kinds… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Understanding a people's culture exposes their normalness without reducing their particularity...It renders them accessible: setting them in the frame of their own banalities, it… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive. — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
“What the ethnographer is in fact faced with—except when (as, of course, he must do) he is pursuing the more automatized routines of data… — Clifford Geertz Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most important reason to be skeptical of government inflation numbers is that the government, like a fox campaigning to guard a hen… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
People realized that they could come on Fox News Sunday, and they would be well and fairly treated. — Brit Hume Copy Share Image
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
New Rule: There is no devil, so stop blaming your screw-ups on him. Last week, one of the biggest evangelical leaders in America, the… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The only thing is that ordinarily when I do dance with [women] they think I am suddenly going to throw them over a table… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering… — Nas Copy Share Image
“You are not at all like my rose," he said. "As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed… — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Copy Share Image
I've built a tree house; because of my architectural training, it's heavily over-designed, with an oriel window sticking out of it and flying foxes… — Greg Wise Copy Share Image
I certainly don't feel like I have a monopoly on [opinions] because I have the job at FOX - any one of a thousand… — Joe Buck Copy Share Image
I have to say, early on, to be fair, in the [Barack] Obama administration, the Obama White House said that Fox News was not… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image