Edwin Thompson Jaynes Quotes

In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

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• If I really believe that visual representation and narrative are ways to convey important, complex ideas, and if the world is gravitating toward this form, then geez, I better do it myself. I want to do it myself.

  

  Dan Pink
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• For the record, I believe elected officials should talk about faith. Our founders believed the moral principles of faith were indispensable to our nation's survival. The Declaration of Independence mentions God four times.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • God
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  • Faith

• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Believe
  • Happen
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• I believe in one power, and that is the hand of God. I respect all religions.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
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• I truly believe that everything Sci-fi taught me as a child about an efficient and wondrous world will be happening in my lifetime.

  

  Yves Behar
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• The 'Dog's Purpose' premise has gotten me so many emails and comments from people who say that their dog is so much like one they had when they were young or years before, that it seems like the truth. The idea that you would come across an old friend later in life.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
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• I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
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  • Life
  • Up

• I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

  

  K. D. Lang
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  • Think
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• The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Truth
  • Soul

• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination of the heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Heart
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  • Hope

• If we have truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not truth, it ought to be harmed.'

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Truth

• No words suffice the secret soul to show, For truth denies all eloquence to woe.

  

  Lord Byron
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• Maybe you want to give me kisses sweet,But only for one night with no repeat.Maybe you'd go away and never call,And a taste of honey is worse than none at all (oh little girl)Oh little girl, in that case I don't want no part. (I do believe that)That would only break my heart.Oh, but if you feel like loving me,If you got the notion,I second that emotion.

  

  Smokey Robinson
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  • Heart
  • Night

• War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

  

  Benito Mussolini
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• Do what you love, and what you're proud of, and you're fuckin' bulletproof. You're fuckin' bulletproof. If you do what you absolutely believe to be right, then you're fuckin' bulletproof.

  

  Craig Ferguson
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• I don't believe that you can learn acting in a classroom.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Believe

• I really do believe that being naturally beautiful is what is inside and what shines through.

  

  Penny Lancaster
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• I believe anger is a wasted emotion, and I don't like to waste emotions.

  

  Jim Webb
  • Believe

• For us, my wife and I and all of my partners believe that corporations have to be corporate citizens, and individuals who benefit from them, or who have built them, need to give back.

  

  Mark Walter
  • Believe
  • Wife

• But life is never easy. There is work to be done and obligations to be met - obligations to truth, to justice, and to liberty.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Life
  • Work
  • Done

• Between 'there is a God' and 'there is no God' lies a whole vast tract, which the really wise man crosses with great effort. A Russian knows one or other of these two extremes, and the middle tract between them does not interest him; and therefore he usually knows nothing, or very little. (Diary, 1897)

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Great
  • God
  • Effort

• My sound is sort of India Arie meets Colbie Caillat. It's got a sweet-funk to it.

  

  Alyson Stoner
  • Sweet

• In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

  

  Edwin Thompson Jaynes
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Possession