Substitutes Quotes - Page 21

• Science is no substitute for virtue; the heart is as necessary for a good life as the head.

  Bertrand Russell

  Good Life, Heart, Virtue

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Icarus; or, the Future of Science”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.

  Bess Myerson

  Mother, Home, Men

  "As American As Cheesecake" by Ellen Goodman, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 1987.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

  Christopher Hampton

  Class, Decadence, Sophistication

  Christopher Hampton (2014). “Christopher Hampton Plays 1: Total Eclipse; The Philanthropist; Savages; Treats”, p.120, Faber & Faber

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no country in the world in which everything can be provided for by the laws, or in which political institutions can prove a substitute for common sense and public morality.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Country, Law, Common Sense

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.101, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

  73 Copy quote

  Show source

• When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

  Thomas Paine

  War, Order, Religion

  Thomas Paine (1945). “The Complete Writings of Thomas Paine”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Forgiveness is not substitute for justice.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Justice

  "Pope: ‘The greatest threat comes from sin within the church’". www.digitaljournal.com. May 11, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

  Hannes Alfven

  Drama, Writing, Ignorance

  6 Copy quote

• Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine is too complicated for all the elements to be able to enter into the analytical comparison we wish to make, we separate the more inconvenient [elements], we substitute others for them, less troublesome but also less real, and we are surprised to arrive, notwithstanding a painful labour, only at a result contradicted by nature; as if after having disguised it, cut it short or altered it, a purely mechanical combination could give it back to us.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Real, Cutting, Giving

  12 Copy quote

• We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.

  Hannah More

  Religious, Memories, Heart

  Hannah More (1814). “The Works of Hannah More: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published ...”, p.98

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.

  Stephen King

  Taken, Home, Light

  7 Copy quote

• Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.

  Charlotte Beers

  Poor, Consensus

  5 Copy quote

• It seems to me that the only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war: mountains and seafaring are the only ones I know. But it must be something sufficiently serious not to be a game and sufficiently dangerous to exercise those virtues which otherwise get no chance.

  Freya Stark

  Peace, War, Exercise

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

  Augustus William Hare

  May, Ancient, Mythology

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.423

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sex should be a deepening of communication, not a substitute for it.

  Marianne Williamson

  Sex, Communication, Should

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.

  Bill Porter

  Travel, Book, Reading

  11 Copy quote

• There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

  Warren Buffett

  Jobs, Newspapers, Locals

  "Buffett Explains Why He Paid $344 Million For 28 Newspapers, And Thinks The Industry Still Has A Future" by Mamta Badkar, www.businessinsider.com. March 01, 2013.

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood.

  Sigmund Freud

  Dream, Writing, Play

  Sigmund Freud (1985). “Art and literature: Jensen's Gradiva, Leonardo da Vinci and other works”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

  Alfred P. Sloan

  Diagnosis, Manners, Bedside Manner

  "The Almanac of Quotable Quotes from 1990". Book by Ronald D. Pasquariello, p. 103, 1991.

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is no substitute for virtue. Keep your thoughts virtuous. Rise above the filth that's all around you in this world and stand tall in strength and virtue. You can do this and you will be happier for it for as long as you live. God bless you in cherishing, developing and holding on to this great gift, the quality of personal virtue.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Long, Quality, World

  8 Copy quote

• In all this world there is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one's word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Integrity, Honor, World

  30 Copy quote

• I don't criticize weight training - as long as it is not a substitute for aerobic training.

  Kenneth H. Cooper

  Long, Training, Weight

  20 Copy quote

• The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

  Adrian Rogers

  Birth, Goodness, Form

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2013). “Unveiling the End Times in Our Time: The Triumph of the Lamb in Revelation”, p.243, B&H Publishing Group

  21 Copy quote

  Show source

• For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

  Barack Obama

  Mistake, Names, Decision

  Second Presidential Inaugural Address, delivered 21 January 2013, Washington, D.C.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• We often say that psi is like musical ability: it is widely distributed in the populate, and everyone has some ability and can participate to some extent - in the same way that the most nonmusical person can learn to play a little Mozart on the piano. On the other hand, there is no substitute for innate talent, and there is no substitute for practice.

  Russell Targ

  Hands, Practice, Play

  Russell Targ (2010). “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness”, p.75, New World Library

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Practice can be stated very simply. It is moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. That seems so simple-except when we substitute for real practice some idea that we should be different or better than we are, or that our lives should be different from the way they are. When we substitute our ideas about what should be (such notions as "I should not be angry or confused or unwilling") for our life as it truly is, then we're off base and our practice is barren.

  Joko Beck

  Hurt, Confused, Real

  13 Copy quote