Raymond Aron Quotes

What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

Raymond Aron

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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Years
  • Actor
  • Over

• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Question
  • Look
  • Make A Difference

• When I'm not touring, I hardly ever leave my house. Part of it is I get to do what I'm most passionate about, which is work on music and make new songs.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • Music
  • House

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.

  

  Palmer Luckey
  • Future
  • Guy
  • Crazy

• We must have the time to create strict rules so that property is not sold by Communist managers for a low price. They often get payments under the table to sell to the first bidder. This does not build public support for a market economy.

  

  Vaclav Klaus
  • Time
  • Support
  • Rules

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology from Oxford University, and an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. I never intended for so many degrees, but I enjoyed getting them all.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • School
  • Medical
  • Biology

• We get a lot of emails, a lot of suggestions on the kinds of ideas and things that people would like to do. There's a lot of good ones, but a lot of them are something that the franchise couldn't or wouldn't endorse, just as being not consistent with what the NBA would want or, probably, what we would even want, too.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Good
  • Ideas

• I wouldn't say I'm a phenomenon, just a great athlete.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Great
  • Athlete
  • Say

• And Cape Town is not what it used to be. Foreigners have left their imprint on our culture.

  

  K. Sello Duiker
  • Culture

• Until we realize that our money power is our sovereign power we cannot act as sovereigns

  

  Edwin Clarence Riegel
  • Money
  • Power
  • Realizing

• I recognize that Hollywood is not about seniority. Often it's not even a meritocracy. It's about what you did yesterday. You have a couple of misses, and suddenly it's impossible to find a hit. So the swings are gigantic. But I've always understood it as such, and navigated it as such.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Couple
  • Hollywood
  • Meritocracy

• He shoots the ball extremely well from the perimeter, which will help our low-post players, ... He is a veteran who brings both playoff experience and leadership.

  

  Elgin Baylor
  • Experience
  • Help
  • Leadership

• Through strife the slumbering soul awakes, We learn on error's troubled route The truths we could not prize without The sorrow of our sad mistakes.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Soul
  • Mistake
  • Sad

• I never knew words could be so confusing," Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog's ear. "Only when you use a lot to say a little," answered Tock. Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he'd heard all day.

  

  Norton Juster
  • Dog
  • Confusing
  • Wisest

• Malfoy glanced around. Harry knew he was checking for signs of teachers. Then he looked back at Harry and said in a low voice, "You're dead, Potter." Harry raised his eyebrows. "Funny," he said, "you'd think I'd have stopped walking around.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Thinking
  • Funny
  • Teacher

• I read neither good nor bad about me. I let it not even in my life, so it has no effect on me. I am very sensitive.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these days it is easy to lose sight of that as, like our society itself, churches are becoming more politicized and polarized. Christian faith is a way of life, not an impregnable fortress made up of ideas; not a philosophy; not a grocery list of beliefs.

  

  Kathleen Norris
  • Philosophy
  • Intellectual
  • Sight

• Some celebrities like to get behind water conservation or helping the homeless get back on their feet. Me? Body grooming control: that's what I like to step behind 100 percent.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Control
  • Water
  • Homeless

• What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.

  

  Raymond Aron
  • Intellectual
  • Optimism
  • Effects