System Quote by Howard Jacobson Download Open image “A system of thought that accepts no inconsistencies is a frightful thing.” — Howard Jacobson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Philosophy of Mind System Thing Thought
You see, one thing is, I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Deep down we all suspect that something is very wrong with the way we perceive life but we try very, very hard not to notice it. And the way we remain blind to our frightful condition is through an obsessive and pathological denial of being -- as if some dreadful fate would overcome us if we were to face the… — Adyashanti Copy Share
I think we've learned in our society that people are scared sometimes of something that's different. — Greg Olsen Copy Share Image
Whats scary is the ability to understand multiple situations and not know which is right. — Dominic Riccitello Copy Share Image
There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
There were a lot of things in life to be afraid of, but strangeness ought not be among them. — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
We human beings get nervous if we don't know what's going on. It's the rule for creating scary stories: the unknown is always more… — Naomi Alderman Copy Share Image
There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
The novel is a thing of irony and ambiguity. That's at the heart of 'J', a world that has stopped arguing with itself. We… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
I was a 'reverence for life' man - 'see life steadily and see it whole' - in my days as a lecturer in English… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
How Donald Trump has come so far with so few words - how he even managed to keep up conversationally with all those beauty… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
It is a nonsense to me when people come along and tell me not to be pessimistic; or that culture has always been going… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
For me a Writing Day was an occasion for self-reproach and panic, a time to lament the passing of the years, stare out of… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
That a nation's statuary will reflect beliefs and attitudes that are no longer current or congenial hardly needs arguing. In most instances, it doesn't… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Was he a bad man or just a foolish one? He didn't feel bad to himself. As a husband he believed himself to be essentially good and loyal. It just wasn't written in a man's nature to be monogamous, that was all. And he owed something to his nature even when his nature was at odds with his desire, which… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share
The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
To a philosopher like Nietzsche, the Jew is culpable not for rejecting Christianity but for inventing it. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Most of the time, I get around perfectly well on my bike and public transportation, even in spite of the Bay Area's almost comically… — Steve Hilton Copy Share Image
I never wanted System to take a hiatus. I think it was a disastrous move for us, because we never reached our peak. — John Dolmayan Copy Share Image
If the system should not need parts now, the worker should not produce because you are just absorbing instead of producing. — Eliyahu Goldratt Copy Share Image
The system in Germany is different, as you sign up with a company for two or three years, and you work exclusively with them;… — Tom Wlaschiha Copy Share Image
We must have a welfare system that we can afford, which will mean giving greater attention to directing the welfare program toward its primary… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Thirty guys equals five percent die-off among active wingsuit base jumpers. That means there's a flaw in our system and you're an idiot if… — Dean Potter Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
You give me enough shots, I'll average 20. You give me a particular system where I stick close to the basket, I'll average 10 rebounds. — Chris Bosh Copy Share Image
It's encouraging to watch bipartisan leaders from different states recognize the need for fair and rational legislation focused on creating second chances for those… — Michael G. Rubin Copy Share Image
