David F. Wells Quotes

Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.

David F. Wells

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• Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Today

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • You
  • Chance
  • Big

• I have a couple of girlfriends who've told me some horror stories but I've never had a really terrible kiss before.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Stories
  • Kiss
  • Terrible

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Wanted
  • Copy
  • Leigh

• I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • You
  • Me
  • Respect

• I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Me
  • Things
  • Keep

• There's a certain attitude to Los Angeles.

  

  Inara George
  • Attitude
  • Los Angeles
  • Los

• Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.

  

  Ian Ziering
  • Care
  • Body
  • Married

• Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Heart
  • Ideas
  • Film

• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama
  • War
  • Dumb
  • Oppose

• Digitas is a company that's very rapidly changing - the digital world changes every day. It's important we hire people who are curious about what's going on and who are willing to learn and want to learn. I look for core leadership traits.

  

  Laura Lang
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• We exchanged a meaning glance. Or, rather, two meaning glances, I giving him one and he giving me the other.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Giving

• That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Jesus

• The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Believe
  • Age
  • Law

• Kochu Maria watched with her cake-crumbs.The Fond Smiles watched Fondly.Little Girls Playing.Sweet.One beach-coloured.One brown.One Loved.One Loved a Little Less.

  

  Arundhati Roy
  • Sweet
  • Beach

• Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.

  

  Claude Bernard

• Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.

  

  George Canning
  • Parents
  • Failure

• These are typically former special operations community personnel who are highly trained in the use of deadly force, also in surveillance detection and also in risk avoidance.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Community
  • Risk
  • Force

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Great
  • Men
  • History

• Truth is now simply a matter of etiquette: it has no authority, no sense of rightness, because it is no longer anchored in anything absolute. If it persuades, it does so only because our experience has given it its persuasive power, but tomorrow our experience might be different.

  

  David F. Wells
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Etiquette