Steven Erikson Quotes

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others.

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• I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Equality
  • Prejudices

• People are sources not just of consumption but of innovation.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Sources

• People are much more likely to act on their self-percepts of efficacy inferred from many sources of information rather than rely primarily on visceral cues. This is not surprising because self knowledge based on information about one's coping skills, past accomplishments, and social comparison is considerably more indicative of capability than the indefinite stirrings of the viscera.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Past
  • Knowledge

• Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Travel
  • Spirit
  • Prejudices

• A woman in agony of spirit might turn her head just so; a man in deep humiliation probably would wring his hands in such a way. From straws like these, drawn from completely different sources, the fabric of a character may be built.

  

  Eleanor Robson Belmont
  • Different
  • May
  • Character

• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hero
  • Principles
  • Terror

• Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to burn his ships and cut all sources of retreat.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Person
  • Burn
  • Sources

• I began to make inquiries of the hundreds of successful men who collaborated with me in the organization of the science of success, and discovered that each of them had received guidance from unknown sources, although many of them were reluctant to admit this discovery.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Men
  • Success
  • Science

• Madness is badness of spirit, when one seeks profit from all sources.

  

  Aristotle
  • Spirit
  • Madness
  • Profit

• Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Common Sense
  • Prejudices
  • Deposit

• Not the violent conflict between parts of the truth, but the quiet suppression of half of it, is the formidable evil; there is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides; it is when they attend to only one that errors harden into prejudices, and truth itself ceases to have the effect of truth, by being exaggerated into falsehood.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Hope
  • Evil
  • Conflict

• What? A great man? I only ever see the ape of his own ideal.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • See
  • Ape

• There are often multiple sources for some famous statements by King; as a professional speaker and minister he used some significant phrases with only slight variation many times in his essays, books, and his speeches to different audiences.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • King
  • Audiences
  • Sources

• Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Free
  • Prejudices

• When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Universe
  • Sources
  • Christian Doctrine

• The individual who has been liberated by reason is always running head-on into a world, a society, whose past in the shape of 'prejudices' has a great deal of power; he is forced to learn that past reality is also a reality.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Society
  • Reality
  • Prejudices

• One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as to introduce a confusion of principles which makes impossible all understanding between those who speak the same language and have the same interests.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Secrets
  • Possession
  • Passions

• Now it seems that everything in the world stems from sources other than God, since the products of nature have their source in nature; deliberate effects can be traced back to human reason or will as their source. There is no need then to assume that God exists.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • God
  • Nature
  • Exists

• We are here a nation, composed of the most heterogeneous elements-Protestants and Catholics, English, French, German, Irish, Scotch, every one, let it be remembered, with his traditions, with his prejudices. In each of these conflicting antagonistic elements, however, there is a common spot of patriotism, and the only true policy is that which reaches that common patriotism and makes it vibrate in all toward common ends and common aspirations.

  

  Wilfrid Laurier
  • Nation
  • Elements
  • Remembered

• ...philosophy is more often the systematization of the prejudices of philosophers than the systematization of nature. Distrust all generalizations: stick to the concrete.

  

  Epifanio de los Santos
  • Philosophy
  • Concrete
  • Prejudices

• There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must include moving forward aggressively with expanding nuclear energy as a renewable energy source. Storing nuclear waste is an important piece of that effort.

  

  Erik Paulsen
  • Important
  • Energy
  • Moving

• I've been a stalwart for national security.

  

  Richard Shelby
  • Security
  • National

• Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Experience
  • Prudence
  • Presumption

• You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others.

  

  Steven Erikson
  • Prejudices
  • Sources
  • Ape