William Stanley Jevons Quotes

I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

William Stanley Jevons

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• I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Long
  • Think

• Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Values
  • Emotions
  • Step

• What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Different

• One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Music
  • Fun

• Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Important

• I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • America
  • Go
  • Switzerland

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  

  M. Esther Harding
  • Beginning
  • Conflict

• All I can say is, I don't talk about the personal stuff. It's the one thing you can keep to yourself. At least you try to.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Talk

• Nashville was totally different than I ever dreamed. I had only seen the music business on television and been to a couple of concerts. I had no clue.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Music
  • Different
  • Business

• Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Way
  • Quality
  • Changing

• Global poverty is a complex web of interlinked problems. There is no one 'silver bullet' that will solve global inequality. Multiple contributing factors must be tackled in parallel. Yes, education alone is unlikely to lead to employment without economic reform to address the demand side in much of the developing world.

  

  Adam Braun
  • World
  • Education
  • Alone

• There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Good
  • Women
  • Today

• When I started 'This American Life', one of the reactions I got was, 'When is the adult going to show up who will host the show?' At some point, people just got used to it.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Every fight brings out something different in me, and it will be no different in this one. I have learned and gained from all of those experiences. And as I've often said, the public hasn't seen the best of me yet. I need someone like Mayweather to bring that out of me.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Best
  • Fight
  • Learned

• When we foster an economy without hope, we guarantee that a segment of our population will be destined to know homelessness on a permanent basis, and not for the one night I voluntarily spent at a shelter.

  

  Jackie Speier
  • Hope
  • Night
  • Economy

• Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Religious
  • Spring
  • Easter

• To keep a man (slave or servant) for your own advantage merely, to keep an animal that you may eat it, is a lie. You cannot look that man or animal in the face.

  

  Edward Carpenter
  • May
  • Animal

• Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

  

  David Suzuki

• Snape is vindictive, he's cruel. He's not a big man. But he loves. I like him, but I'd also like to slap him hard.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Men
  • Bigs
  • Vindictive

• Rescuing people from the results of their own foolishness is really what customers service is all about. Customers rarely obey the rules. They expect you to rescue them whenever they do something stupid. Will you be a “rescuer,” known far and wide for customer service, or will you steadfastly insist that your customers follow the proper procedures?

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Stupid
  • Customers
  • Foolishness

• I'll be supporting anyone but England.

  

  Andy Murray

• True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to.

  

  William Stanley Jevons
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Opinion