Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard P. Feynman

Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.

Roger Martin

When it comes to innovation, business has much to learn from design. The philosophy in design shops is, 'try it, prototype it, and improve it'.

Umberto Eco

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.

Reid Hoffman

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

William Kristol

Leo Strauss's discoveries in the history of political philosophy had the effect of liberating his students from the yoke of contemporary thought.

William James

The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.

William James

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.

William James

Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.

William James

Philosophy is "an unusually stubborn attempt to think clearly.

Vance Havner

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Robert Trout

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

Robert M. Fresco

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.

Walter Raleigh

This is a sharp medicine, but it is a physician for all diseases and miseries.

James Cook

With socialized medicine, the trick is not to die while waiting for treatment.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Napoleon Bonaparte

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Oliver Sacks

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

Paul Ballew

It sure is going to be a struggle as we back off on rental sales, You take your medicine and you go on.

Steve Tisch

I think that's the perception and I'm not saying it's not accurate.

Samuel Dash

Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up.

Lamar Odom

Perception rules the world. Everyone knows that. Where we live and where we're from, you just can't escape it.

Mark Krikorian

There's definitely a huge gap between the elite and public perceptions on immigration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We imperatively require a perception of and a homage to beauty in our companions. Other virtues are in request in the field and workyard, but a certain degree of taste is not to be spared in those we sit with.

Elisabeth Hasselbeck

I'm not worried about misconception or a perception that's bad. If I were, I'd be chasing something all the time.

Freda Adler

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Hermann Hesse

Who travels far will often see things Far removed from what was believed as Truth.