Michael Polanyi Quotes
We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.Michael Polanyi
Quotes to Explore
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At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.
Karl Rove -
It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
W. H. Auden -
Long hair is considered bohemian, which may be why I grew it, but I keep it long because I love the way it feels, part cloak, part fan, part mane, part security blanket.
Marge Piercy -
[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.
Fanny Kemble -
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
Claude Levi-Strauss -
I believe in pride of race and lineage and self: in pride of self so deep as to scorn injustice to other selves; in pride of lineage so great as to despise no man's father; in pride of race so chivalrous as neither to offer bastardy to the weak nor beg wedlock of the strong, knowing that men may be brothers in Christ, even though they be not brothers-in-law.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Design is everything.
William Merritt Chase -
To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.
William Shakespeare -
The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.
George Washington -
Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.
Audrey Hepburn -
We did face a lot of adversity at Brevard and our guys did a good job bouncing back. We were playing fullback by committee there so it was a true team win.
Chris Norman Smokie -
I'm a big fan of improvisation but I can't say that I'm great at it.
Michelle Monaghan
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My M.O. over the years is that I make things better, where people give me that freedom.
Michael Ironside -
It's pretty easy to decide to roll with the punches, to look at the enormity of natural disaster and choose to hunker down and do less. It's more important than ever, I think, to persist and make a dent in the universe instead. We've all been offered access to so many tools, so many valuable connections, so many committed people. What an opportunity.
Seth Godin -
More computing sins are committed in the name of efficiency (without necessarily achieving it) than for any other single reason - including blind stupidity.
William Wulf -
We cannot ultimately specify the grounds (either metaphysical or logical or empirical) upon which we hold that our knowledge is true. Being committed to such grounds, dwelling in them, we are projecting ourselves to what we believe to be true from or through these grounds. We cannot therefore see what they are. We cannot look at them because we are looking with them.
Michael Polanyi