Implicit Quotes - Page 4

• What we mean by information - the elementary unit of information - is a difference which makes a difference, and it is able to make a difference because the neural pathways along which it travels and is continually transformed are themselves provided with energy. The pathways are ready to be triggered. We may even say that the question is already implicit in them.

  Gregory Bateson

  Mean, Differences, Making A Difference

  "Steps to an Ecology of Mind". Book by Gregory Bateson, 1972.

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• It may, indeed, be assumed that a man who loses his temper while he is speaking is endeavouring to speak the truth such as he believes it to be, and again it may be assumed that a man who speaks constantly without losing his temper is not always entitled to the same implicit faith.

  Anthony Trollope

  Believe, Men, May

  Anthony Trollope, John Bowen (2011). “Phineas Redux”, p.64, Oxford University Press

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• It has always seemed to me that the social order was implicit in the very nature of things, and required nothing more from the human spirit than care in arranging the various elements; that a people could be governed without being made thralls or libertines or victims thereby; that man was born for peace and liberty, and became miserable and cruel only through the action of insidious and oppressive laws. And I believe therefore that if man be given laws which harmonize with the dictates of nature and of his heart he will cease to be unhappy and corrupt.

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's speech to the National Convention, April 24, 1793.

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• The faith of scientists in the power and truth of mathematics is so implicit that their work has gradually become less and less observation, and more and more calculation.... But the facts which are accepted by virtue of these tests are not actually observed at all.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Tests, Facts, Virtue

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• Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

  Edmund Morris

  Eye, Hands, Violence

  Edmund Morris (2010). “Theodore Rex”, p.60, Random House

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• Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an implicit acceptance, like being invited along to the dinner with all of the good cartoonists, or sitting down at a drafting table with an artist and him showing me how to draw backgrounds and perspectives.

  Adrian Tomine

  Acceptance, Artist, Perspective

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• In the unexamined American Dream rhetoric promoting mass higher education in the nation of my youth, the implicit vision was that one day everyone, or at least practically everyone, would be a manager or a professional. We would use the most elitist of all means, scholarship, toward the most egalitarian of ends. We would all become chiefs; hardly anyone would be left a mere Indian.

  William A. Henry III

  Dream, Mean, Vision

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• What is a miracle?--'Tis a reproach, 'Tis an implicit satire on mankind; And while it satisfies, it censures too.

  Edward Young

  Miracle, Satire, Mankind

  Edward Young (1839). “Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. [Followed by] A paraphrase on part of the book of Job”, p.228

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• My intention, certainly, is to create something which is aesthetic but many things are implicit in the work that I do. For me photography is writing, it is history; it can be aesthetic, it can be many things though it does not have to be art.

  Graciela Iturbide

  Photography, Art, Writing

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• Even if fathers are more benignly helpful, and even if they spend time with us teaching us what they know, rarely do they tell uswhat they feel. They stand apart emotionally: strong perhaps, maybe caring in a nonverbal, implicit way; but their internal world remains mysterious, unseen, "What are they really like?" we ask ourselves. "What do they feel about us, about the world, about themselves?

  Augustus Napier

  Strong, Children, Father

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• Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.

  James L. Buckley

  Expectations, Honor, Promise

  James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Life is two things. Life is morality – life is adventure. Squire and master. Adventure rules, and morality looks up the trains in the Bradshaw. Morality tells you what is right, and adventure moves you. If morality means anything it means keeping bounds, respecting implications, respecting implicit bounds. If individuality means anything it means breaking bounds – adventure.

  H. G. Wells

  Moving, Adventure, Mean

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.3014, Delphi Classics

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• He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

  Angela Carter

  Art, Real, Order

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Country, Promise, Corporations

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2010). “The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms”, p.90, Random House

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• The arrogant elimination of the Djaouts of our world must nerve us to pursue our own combative doctrine, namely: that peaceful cohabitation on this planet demands that while the upholders of any creed are free to adopt their own existential absolutes, the right of others to do the same is thereby rendered implicit and sacrosanct. Thus the creed of inquiry, of knowledge and exchange of ideas, must be upheld as an absolute, as ancient and eternal as any other.

  Wole Soyinka

  Our World, Ideas, Peaceful

  FaceBook post by Wole Soyinka from Apr 07, 2015

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• All the pathos and irony of leaving one's youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

  Paul Fussell

  Wise, Travel, Joy

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• The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

  Octavio Paz

  Civilization, Progress, Technique

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• No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress. It is also a first step in our attempt to find the principles implicit in familiar observational notions.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Science, Progress, Principles

  Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.39, Verso

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• So much of marriage was implicit and nonverbal. Had I gotten so complacent I'd forgotten to communicate?

  Jodi Picoult

  Forgotten, Complacent, Communicate

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.299, Simon and Schuster

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• No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Advice, Opinion

  Samuel Johnson (1756). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.82

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• The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

  Men, Vanity, Morality

  Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks (1976). “The Female Imagination”

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• When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and preventive medicine, many regard the human content of these practices as implicit. But the contempt for man that underlies it, when man is used and abused, leads -- like it or not -- to a descent into hell.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Men, Practice, Used And Abused

  "Cardinal Ratzinger - Pope Benedict XVI on Life, Faith, Family and Freedom" by John-Henry Westen, www.lifesitenews.com. April 19, 2005.

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• Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Cameras, Needs

  "Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. September 23, 2012.

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• In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple conversation, for human contact, for love. I was an anoretic because I was afraid of being human. Implicit in human contact is the exposure of the self, the interaction of the selves. The self I'd had, once upon a time, was too much. Now there was no self at all. I was a blank.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Fear, Sleep, Simple

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• Sorrow is implicit in love as gravitation is implicit in mass.

  Lawrence Durrell

  Sorrow, Mass, Gravitation

  Lawrence Durrell (2015). “The Avignon Quintet: Monsieur, Livia, Constance, Sebastian and Quinx”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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