Bias of Priene Quotes

Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.

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• One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom

• The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Family
  • Father

• I'm trying to create a body of work that sort of represents something, and has something to say. Hopefully, I'll have a career that, 20 years from now, I'll look back and I'll have told the world about a slice of New York that they wouldn't have known about.

  

  Edward Burns
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• We live fragmented, compartmentalized lives in which contradictions are carefully sealed off from each other. We have been taught to think linearly rather than comprehensively, and we do this not through conscious design or because we are not intelligent or capable, but because of the way in which deep cultural undercurrents structure life in subtle but highly consistent ways that are not consciously formulated.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • Life
  • Live
  • Deep

• Scriptural hope is not wishful thinking. It's rock-solid assurance!

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Thinking
  • Hope
  • Rock

• Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young.

  

  Matthew Shafer
  • Kids
  • Today

• Francie was ten years old when she first found an outlet in writing. What she wrote was of little consequence. What was important was that the attempt to write stories kept her straight on the dividing line between truth and fiction. If she had not found this outlet in writing, she might have grown up to be a tremendous liar.

  

  Betty Smith
  • Up
  • Important
  • Writing

• If you can figure out what their motivation is, then you're ahead of the game. I think that's why a lot of people who are in this industry don't have a lot of friends - but have a lot of acquaintances - because you never know what everyone's ulterior motives are.

  

  Donald Faison
  • People
  • Why
  • Friends

• I think I will tell her to come here, and if her house is damaged, I can go back with her and help with the cleanup. I'm just glad she's not in the Superdome.

  

  Ann Miller
  • House
  • Glad
  • Damaged

• Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

  

  Aristotle
  • Happiness
  • Belongs
  • Self-Sufficient

• Tremendous human energy is needed to walk God's walk, work God's work, fulfill God's will, and complete his dream for our self-esteem.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Energy
  • Human
  • Tremendous

• England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Mind
  • England

• Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

  

  William Law
  • Summer
  • Perfection
  • Intention

• If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you're who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If, on the other hand, I'm who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I'm not who I am and you're not who you are.

  

  Yasmina Reza
  • Hand

• Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Wonder
  • Gods
  • Human Beings

• One-fourth of humanity must be eliminated from the social body. We are in charge of God's selection process for planet Earth. He selects, we destroy. We are the riders of the pale horse, Death.

  

  Barbara Marx Hubbard
  • Humanity
  • Gods
  • Selection

• Even were sleep is concerned, too much is a bad thing.

  

  Homer
  • Sleep
  • Concerned
  • Bad Thing

• Whatever good fortune befalls you, attribute it to the gods.

  

  Bias of Priene
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