Knowledge Quote by G. E. M. Anscombe Download Open image “The primitive sign of wanting is trying to get....” — G. E. M. Anscombe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Knowledge Mind Primitive Trying
The first and most practical step in getting what one wants in this world is wanting it. One would think that the next step… — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
“The underlying dynamic here is that a want can easily be interpreted as a need. This happens in two ways. First, we can make… — Marc Foley Copy Share Image
The trouble with wanting something is the fear of losing it, or never getting it. The thought makes you weak. — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
The relief that is afforded to mere want, as want, tends to increase that want. — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
Wanting and needing have two very different s meanings some people still seem to not figure that out. — Arjun Loveable Copy Share Image
We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want. — Hanne Blank Copy Share Image
...once the cards are dealt we turn them up in turn, and make two piles each, one red, one black; the winner has the… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
The denial of any distinction between foreseen and intended consequences, as far as responsibility is concerned, was not made by Sidgwick in developing any… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
An intentional object is given by a word or a phrase which gives a description under which. — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need… — G. E. M. Anscombe Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I never knew any man who had once tasted the sweetness of experimental knowledge, that ever afterward fasted after ye Vapour garlick and onions… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I've always been a believer in research. It's great to have an instinctual human reaction to a character, too, of course, but it has… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
I am an aware citizen, so I want my characters to be aware, too. They should be aware of what's happening in the society… — Pankaj Tripathi Copy Share Image
