Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society...
- Dean Gordon Brown
- The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.
- Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980)
- When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.
- Dale Carnegie
- The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
- The world of the happy is quite different from that of the unhappy.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951), Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)
- What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes? Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why? I don't know. Biological imperative? Divine law? Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other? In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Our Wedding, 1992
- Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
- Frank Herbert (1920 - 1986), Dune
- You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
- Neil Armstrong (1930 - ), USC 2005 graduation
- If we are going to teach creation science as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
- Judith Hayes
Can't find what you're looking for? Try browsing our list of quotations by subject..
|