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
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• 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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• To tell you the truth, I hadn't seen any Pixar until I went to see 'Wall-E,' and I watched it and I was shocked to see how adult it was, with the setting in our lives, both present and future, and how they dealt with it... And then quite relieved to find that the one I was working on, 'Up,' how adult it was.

  

  Ed Asner
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• I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.

  

  Beatrice Wood
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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'm a great believer in chaos. I don't believe that you start with a formula and then you fulfill the formula. Chaos is a much better instigator, because we live in chaos - we don't live in a rigorous form.

  

  Sam Shepard
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  • Live

• I don't believe you can get into somebody's character but more that somebody comes in you. You just use yourself. In everything I play, I feel like it is me. I just say different things on different times and look different.

  

  Carice van Houten
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• It is a most certain truth, that the richer we see ourselves to be, confessing at the same time our poverty, the greater will be our progress, and the more real our humility.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
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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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  • 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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• The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates.

  

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

  

  J. Reuben Clark
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• 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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  • War
  • Peace

• The truth of Scripture is meant not only to be studied-it’s meant also to be sung.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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  • Scripture
  • Meant

• Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • God
  • Ambition
  • Worship

• 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