Method Quotes

• Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.

  Burton Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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• Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

  Carl Jung

  Life, Leadership, Thoughtful

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Science, Perception, Quantum Physics

  Physics and Philosophy (1958)

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• People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Animal, Men, Thinking

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• If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

  Richard Stallman

  Goal, Needs, World

  Richard Stallman (2002). “Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman”, p.75, Lulu.com

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• It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

  Address at Oglethorpe University, 22 May (1932)

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• The proper method for hastening the decay of error is by teaching every man to think for himself.

  William Godwin

  Teaching, Men, Thinking

  William Godwin, Luke White (bookseller.) (1793). “An Enquiry Concerning Political Justice: And Its Influence on General Virtue and Happiness”, p.375

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• Part of our western outlook stems from the scientific attitude and its method of isolating the parts of a phenomenon in order to analyze them.

  Arthur Erickson

  Attitude, Artist, Order

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• The scientific method actually correctly uses the most direct evidence as the most reliable, because that's the way you are least likely to get led astray into dead ends and to misunderstand your data.

  Aubrey de Grey

  Data, Scientific Method, Way

  "How Beer, Oprah and Sergey Brin can help cure aging". Interview with Steven Leckart, www.wired.com. October 19, 2010.

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• This means that to entrust to science - or to deliberate control according to scientific principles - more than scientific method can achieve may have deplorable effects.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Scientific Method, Principles

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• Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Inspirational, Inspiration, Technique

  "Law and Literature and Other Essays and Addresses". Book by Benjamin N. Cardozo, 1931.

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• Create your own method. Don't depend slavishly on mine. Make up something that will work for you! But keep breaking traditions, I beg you.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Break Up, Originality, Tradition

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• In fact its quite gratifying for me to see some of the people who really objected to this method of working now being quite so profligate in their use of it.

  Derek Bailey

  People, Facts, Use

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• Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

  Emma Goldman

  Direct Action, Logical, Consistent

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Vitality, Audacity, Vigor

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• There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method.

  Herman Melville

  Order, Literature, Enterprise

  Herman Melville (2016). “Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale”, p.299, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

  Hermann Hesse

  Insanity, Insane, Sanity

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• Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is

  Clifford Geertz

  Real, Anxiety, Matter

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• Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.

  Jane Addams

  Attitude, Army, Men

  Jane Addams (2006). “Jane Addams's Essays and Speeches on Peace”, p.303, A&C Black

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• There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

  Francis Beaumont

  Growing Up, Men, Degrees

  Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, Henry William Weber (1812). “The works of Beaumont and Fletcher: in fourteen volumes: with an introduction and explanatory notes”

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• The method of political science is the interpretation of life; its instrument is insight, a nice understanding of subtle, unformulated conditions.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Life, Nice, Political

  Woodrow Wilson, Howard Seavoy Leach (1925). “The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson: College and state, educational, literary and political papers (1875-1913)”

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• Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his method must inexorably choose falsehood as his principle.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Peace, War, Lying

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

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• Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

  Edward Hopper

  Simple, Painting, Wells

  "Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.

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