William Pepperell Montague Quotes

To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.

William Pepperell Montague

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• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Sometimes, it's good to stick to your guns.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Sometimes
  • Guns

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• The European girls, like the Russians, tend to stick together, but there's never any rivalry. Sometimes there's a little bit of tension with the older girls because they might feel a little threatened by the younger models, but it's not between personalities.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Together
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Lie

• There was this girl who went to my school, and she did a Nikki Giovanni poem, 'Ego Tripping,' and it was just different from everyone else's. It wasn't flat recitation. It had an energy and a life to it. And it made me sit up in my seat, and my eyes got wide, and I really felt inside myself, 'She's making me feel things. I want to do that.'

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Life
  • Up
  • Different

• We are living our lives more online and you need to have different ways to capture that.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Different
  • You
  • Need

• In America, we have this bell curve of certain values. And then we have another bell curve of different values, which is the Republican Party. And they're out of sync right now.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Different
  • America
  • Party

• There are plenty of movies that you need to chew on a bit. Movies that you return to and see something different in the second time around.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • World
  • Truth
  • Society

• Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will be like, 'Where did you say you were from again...?' And then I panic, and my accent dissolves, and I pretend like I wasn't doing it in the first place.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Different
  • Speak
  • Doing

• I lost court cases and misdemeanor juries, but of felony jury trials I was successful 105 of 106 times.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Lost
  • Successful
  • Trials

• God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Wishes

• When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.

  

  Im Dong-Hyun
  • Different
  • Look
  • Down

• You can learn all about the human condition from covering the crime beat in a big city - you don't need to go to Beirut for that - but a foreign correspondent begins to understand poverty from a different perspective.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • City
  • Poverty

• In our lives, Michelle and I have been strengthened by our Christian faith. But there have been times where my faith has been questioned – by people who don't know me – or they've said that I adhere to a different religion, as if that were somehow a bad thing.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Different
  • Bad

• It's really no different for me 'cause I work for BET so it's like the writers are always on strike.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Work
  • Different

• During a season, you have different moments, up and down, but you have to hope in a good team to have good stability.

  

  Antonio Conte
  • Up
  • Good
  • Different

• All of our heroes did silly stuff early and got more serious as time went on. Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, Bill Murray. They got older, wiser, and made different choices.

  

  Akiva Schaffer
  • Time
  • Different
  • Serious

• There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

  

  LeBron James
  • World

• The pressure suit helps if something goes wrong during launch or re-entry - astronauts have a way to parachute off the shuttle. The suits protect you from loss of pressure in case of emergency.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Pressure
  • Loss
  • Suits

• A tactic used by authors of virtually every single book I've ever read that propounds a conspiracy theory is to attack an agency as being part of a conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination, but when this same agency comes up with something favorable to the author's position, the author will cite that same agency as credible support for his argument.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Up
  • Book
  • Support

• To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thing--and a thing that is sometimes bad and sometimes good--but to assume that truth itself consists in the process by which it is verified is a different thing and always bad.

  

  William Pepperell Montague
  • Different
  • Truth
  • Sometimes