Calculations Quote by Georges Bernanos Download Open image “The most dangerous of our calculations are those we call illusions.” — Georges Bernanos ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Calculations Danger Dangerous Illusion Inspirational
There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are in danger of valuing most highly those things we can measure most accurately, which means that we are often precisely wrong rather… — John Banham Copy Share Image
In the long run, it is far more dangerous to adhere to illusion than to face what the actual fact is. — David Bohm Copy Share Image
There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion. — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
How disturbing it is that our illusions are often our most important beliefs. — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
If our intelligence is either manipulated or if it's shaded or if in some way it is exaggerated, it is very, very dangerous for… — Carl Levin Copy Share Image
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us go mad. — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
The causes of illusions are not pretty to discover. They're either vicious or tragic. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I know the compassion of others is a relief at first. I don't despise it. But it can't quench pain, it slips through your… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Optimism approves of everything, submits to everything, believes everything; it is the virtue above all of the taxpayer. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
I have just discovered something I have always known: we can no more escape from one another than we can escape from God. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes afterward. — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Justice in the hands of the powerful is merely a governing system like any other. Why call it justice? Let us rather call it… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Chantal's only ruse ... was her shattering simplicity. While a weak man or an imposter is always more complicated than the problem he is… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
Cold calculation, random spots of color, mathematically exact construction (clearly shown or concealed), drawing that is now silent and now strident . . .… — Giacomo Puccini Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Without calculation, economic activity is impossible. Since under Socialism economic calculation is impossible, under Socialism there can be no economic activity in our sense… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
It was so simple to paint things as I saw them; to put without special calculation a red close to a blue. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Losses of a kind of satisfaction that have no market equivalent don't show up in the calculations of economists. — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
It was basic research in the photoelectric field-in the photoelectric effect that would one day lead to solar panels. It was basic research in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Those who are unacquainted with the details of scientific investigation have no idea of the amount of labour expended in the determination of those… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
There is a small segment of people with autism that have savant skills, where they can memorize entire maps of whole entire city. They… — Temple Grandin Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
