Arthur Jensen Quotes

Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

Arthur Jensen

• Reality
• Intentions
• Based

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Fiction

• I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times. It's best not to ask questions and just enjoy.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Best

• The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Can

• I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Reality
  • Actor
  • Begin

• Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Reality
  • Fear

• Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Reality
  • Play
  • Imagination

• I believe that pop culture is just, like, so ready for 'Watchmen.' We tried so hard to ride that wave between satire and reality, and all the things that make you still care about the character, but you don't miss the commentary about them.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Reality

• History is a tool used by politicians to justify their intentions.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • History
  • Tool
  • Intentions

• The blurring of fantasy and reality is something that the Japanese herald in their life, in their day-to-day commercialism.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Japanese

• People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they're somehow discovering reality, but of course that's just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Made
  • Many

• Nature's purpose in relation to the visual arts is to provide stimulus - not imitation.. .From its ceaseless urge to create springs all Life - all movement and rhythm - time and light, color and mood - in short, all reality in Form and Thought.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Life
  • Time
  • Nature

• I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Men

• That scrawny cry - It was A chorister whose c preceded the choir. It was part of the colossal sun, Surrounded by its choral rings, Still far away. It was like A new knowledge of reality.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Reality
  • Knowledge
  • Sun

• Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final. It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Reality
  • Wonder

• It is the fallacy of all intellectuals to believe that intellect can grasp life. It cannot, because it works in terms of symbols and language. There is another factor involved: consciousness. If the flame of consciousness is low, a symbol has no power to evoke reality, and intellect is helpless.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Power

• The poet creates it; the people by recitation recreate it. Poet and reader (hearer) are moments of the same reality.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • People
  • Reality
  • Moments

• Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Reality

• But the present world is also designed for something which has not yet happened. It is like a violin waiting to be played: beautiful to look at, graceful to hold - and yet if you'd never heard one in the hands of a musician, you wouldn't believe the new dimensions of beauty yet to be revealed.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • World
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• Anybody who tells you they're not scared when starting a new book project is a very good liar.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Book
  • Project
  • Liar

• Even today no computer can understand language as well as a three-year-old or see as well as a mouse.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Today
  • Language
  • Computer

• I'm very conscious that I'm an entertainer. Something like 73 percent of my readers are college graduates, so you can't condescend to people. You've got to tell them a story that they will be willing to pay money to read.

  

  James Patterson
  • People
  • Money
  • College

• People talk of peace, "We should have peace" - how can you have peace? It's not possible, is an impossible situation. You see we think by thinking, by organizing, by manipulating, we'll have peace. You cannot. You cannot have peace that way. How will you have peace? When the peace is established on your attention. When your attention is peaceful, when we are absolutely without any thoughts, then the peace resides.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• Good intentions are impotent unless based on reality.

  

  Arthur Jensen
  • Reality
  • Intentions
  • Based