Variance Quotes - Page 2

• Liberty is the parent of truth, but truth and decency are sometimes at variance. All men and all propositions are to be treated here as they deserve, and there are many who have no claim either to respect or decency.

  Samuel Johnson

  Truth, Men, Parent

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: In thirteen volumes. ...”, p.268

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• When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their inclinations, it is the duty of the persons whom they have appointed to be the guardians of those interests, to withstand the temporary delusion, in order to give them time and opportunity for more cool and sedate reflection.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Reflection, Opportunity, Order

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2003). “The Federalist: With Letters of Brutus”, p.349, Cambridge University Press

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• The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

  Erica Jong

  Men, Hypocrisy, Ems

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• I think what's been true across the board is the universal patriarchy, the fear of women ever being born back into complete sexuality and life-force. This manifests itself in different cultural variances, but that's really what's going on everywhere.

  Eve Ensler

  Thinking, Different, Boards

  "Avocados and Vaginas". Interview with Joe Saxon, www.thestateofthearts.co.uk. May 16, 2015.

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• ... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Artistic, Found, Theological

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2011). “The Man Born to Be King: A Play-cycle on the Life of Our Loard and Saviour Jesus Christ”, p.37, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We've taken disturbances and fluctuations and averaged them together to give us comfortable statistics. Our training has been to look for big numbers, important trends, major variances. Yet it is the slight variations - soft-spoken, even whispered at first - that we need to encourage.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Change, Taken, Numbers

  Margaret J. Wheatley (1994). “Leadership and the new science: learning about organization from an orderly universe”, Berrett-Koehler Pub

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• My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends. Why, my dear lord, it is their interest that aw mankind should be at variance; for disagreement is the vary manure wi' which they enrich and fatten the land of leetigation; and as they find that constantly produces the best crop, depend upon it they will always be sure till lay it on ass thick ass they can.

  Charles Macklin

  Animal, Land, Dear Lord

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• As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

  Horace Mann

  Truth Is, True Religion

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.78

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• A discovery must be, by definition, at variance with existing knowledge. During my lifetime, I made two. Both were rejected offhand by the popes of the field. Had I predicted these discoveries in my applications, and had those authorities been my judges, it is evident what their decisions would have been.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Knowledge, Science, Discovery

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• Because not even the least Dharma is there found or got at. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlightenment'. Self-identical is that Dharma and nothing is therein at variance. Therefore is it called 'utmost, right and perfect enlighten'

  Gautama Buddha

  Self, Perfect, Enlightenment

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• The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is, in fact, and must be regarded by the judges, as fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred; or, in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Law, Two, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.145, Rowman & Littlefield

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• By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Philosophical, Europe

  Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): Annabel Lee, Ligeia, The Sphinx, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…”, p.305, e-artnow

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• [Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions!

  Adam Sedgwick

  Horse, Science, Games

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• One symptom of his (Hitler) being strangely at variance with reality, or the nature of things,was his gift for wearing inappropriate of ludicrous clothing...When he was supposed to be starting a militaristic revolution he was wearing evening dress and an ill-fitting black tailcoat...and his army medals.

  A. N. Wilson

  Army, Reality, Black

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• What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

  Timothy Leary

  Wish, Patterns, Psychedelic

  Timothy Leary (2004). “Interpersonal Diagnosis of Personality: A Functional Theory and Methodology for Personality Evaluation”, p.118, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that time.

  Ronald Fisher

  Fundamentals, May, Natural

  "The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection". Book by Ronald Fisher, 1930.

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• Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

  Carol Gilligan

  Men, Judgment, Sensibility

  Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.63, Harvard University Press

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• CEOs hate variance. It's the enemy. Variance in customer service is bad. Variance in quality is bad. CEOs love processes that are standardized, routinized, predictable. Stamping out variance makes a complex job a bit less complex.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Jobs, Hate, Enemy

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• Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Country, Gold, Investing

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• The individual within the collective is never, or hardly ever, conscious of the prevailing thought style, which almost always exerts an absolutely compulsive force upon his thinking and with which it is not possible to be at variance.

  Ludwik Fleck

  Thinking, Style, Collaboration

  Ludwik Fleck (2012). “Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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• Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature; they being both the servants of his providence. Art is the perfection of nature. Were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos. Nat, are unconscious of the harmony of creation.

  Thomas Cole

  Art, Nature, Perfection

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• I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad ... he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.

  Boris Johnson

  Reality, Mad, Needs

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• To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Making Money, Grievance

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• It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Practice, Editors, Principles

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• Encourage dissent: Leaders should have associates who have contrary views, who are devil's advocates, "variance sensors" who can tell them the difference between what is expected and what is really happening, between what they want to hear and what they need to hear. There are too many naked emperors running around today.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Running, Views, Should Have

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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