Method Quotes - Page 2

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

  Hermann Hesse

  Insanity, Insane, Sanity

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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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• 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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• But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

  Gabriel Marcel

  Adequate, Objects

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• I just want to be told a story, and I want to believe I'm living that story, and I don't give a thought to influences or method or any other writerly concerns

  Anne Tyler

  Believe, Giving, Stories

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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, Analysis

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

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• Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

  George H. Mead

  Stupid, Differences, Different

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• It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.

  A. E. Waite

  Sight, Acting, Firsts

  A. E. Waite (2012). “The Pictorial Key to the Tarot”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.

  Edward Gibbon

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Math, Insanity

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [211]

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• The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Misunderstood, Use, Literature

  "Aphorisms from the Athenaeum" by Friedrich Schlegel, #19, 1798.

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• If we can by any method establish a relation of mutual trust between the laborer and the employer, we shall lay the foundation stone of a structure that will endure for all time.

  Mark Hanna

  Trust, Foundation, Stones

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• History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Use, Arise, Materials

  Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

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• Influenced by him, and probably even more so by my brother Theodore a year older than me, I soon became interested in biology and developed a respect for the importance of science and the scientific method.

  Frederick Sanger

  Respect, Brother, Years

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• There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

  Linda Tripp

  Fighting, Media, Average

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• Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Business, Today, Tomorrow

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• I take the debate on the method of promoting democracy seriously

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  Democracy, Debate, Promoting

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• The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

  Moshe Dayan

  Punishment, Collectives

  "Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-1999". Book by Benny Morris, 1999.

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• If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Powerful, Cells, Analysis

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• Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Science, Objectivity, Victory

  The Silence of the Sea On Statistics (p. 173)

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• The one effective method of defending one's own territory from an offensive by air is to destroy the enemy's air power with the greatest possible speed.

  Giulio Douhet

  Air, Enemy, Territory

  General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.165, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition.

  Karel Capek

  Fighting, Creating, Literature

  "On Relativism". Book by Karel Capek, 1925.

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• I do not use any set methods, not even The Method. The character after all is in the lines.

  Donald Pleasence

  Character, Use, Lines

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• Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment.

  Roger Bacon

  Doubt, Mind, Doe

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