Analysis Quotes

• Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, Trying

  Max Planck (1933). “Where is science going?”

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• Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

  Karen Horney

  Life, Spiritual, Women

  Our Inner Conflicts: A Constructive Theory of Neuroses conclusion (1945)

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• Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Spring, Creativity, Spontaneity

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• Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

  Albert Camus

  Music, Dream, Appreciation

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• Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

  Adam Smith

  Happiness, Happy, Pulse

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• There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Syndromes, Paralysis

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• Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Mind, Synthesis, Habit

  Frank Lloyd Wright, Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer (1992). “Frank Lloyd Wright Collected Writings: 1930-1932”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Learning, Science, Mind

  1925 Science and the Modern World.

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• Analysis kills spontaneity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Life, Art, Philosophy

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• When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Crazy, Acceptance, Mad

  Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

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• Truth suffers from too much analysis.

  Frank Herbert

  Wisdom, Suffering, Too Much

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.68, Penguin

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• Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Motivational, Education

  Proper Studies "A Note on Dogma" (1927)

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• In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

  Jimmy Carter

  Respect, Book, Commitment

  Jimmy Earl Carter “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, Jimmy Carter, 1978, Book 1: January 1 to June 30, 1978”, Government Printing Office

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• If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• If you torture the data long enough, it will confess.

  Ronald Coase

  Truth, Knowledge, Data

  "A Comment on Daniel Klein's 'A Plea to Economists Who Favor Liberty'" by Gordon Tullock, Eastern Economic Journal, 2001.

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• He suffered from paralysis by analysis.

  Bill Vaughan

  Paralysis

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• Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Inspirational, Book, Educator

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• Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Night, Men, Self

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• The Marxist analysis has got nothing to do with what happened in Stalin's Russia: it's like blaming Jesus Christ for the Inquisition in Spain.

  Tony Benn

  Jesus, Russia, Spain

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• What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

  Anita Brookner

  Art, Self, Interesting

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• My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Motivational, Work, Giving

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2012). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes: with an introduction from Robert Ryan”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

  Paul Klee

  Self, Drawing, Finals

  Paul Klee, Felix Klee (1968). “The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918”, p.183, Univ of California Press

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• The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, Pythagorean Theorem, Mathematics

  "Statistics in agricultural research". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 1934.

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• To me, error analysis is the sweet spot for improvement.

  Donald A. Norman

  Sweet, Errors, Improvement

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• I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

  Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

  Believe, Data, Freak

  "Is the Freedom of Information Act a good thing?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2012.

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