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Quotes About Coherent

Though knowledge itself increasingly ignores boundaries between fields, professors are apt to organize their pedagogy around the methods and history of their academic subculture rather than some coherent topic in the world.
~ Steven Pinker
I think the fact that people are even talking about the prospect of the Tories coming second is less about anything the Tories have done and more about the failures of Labour to set out, in any kind of coherent sense, what it's for anymore.
~ Nicola Sturgeon
It seems as though the goal of my work has always been to dissolve myself completely into the sensations of the surroundings in order to then integrate this into a coherent painterly form.
~ Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Think what evil creeps liberals would be if their plans to enfeeble the individual, exhaust the economy, impede the rule of law, and cripple national defense were guided by a coherent ideology instead of smug ignorance.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
By the time the last of these relationships ended I was such a quaking mass of colliding, exploding neurotransmitter malfunctions that the only coherent sentence I could form in my native tongue went: Never again.
~ Merrill Markoe
Even if (as I myself believe) almost all Hegel's doctrines are false, he still retains an importance which is not merely historical, as the best representative of a certain kind of philosophy which, in others, is less coherent and less comprehensive.
~ Bertrand Russell
a kaleidoscope of narrative more than any coherent story.
~ Joshua Ferris
a deep investigation of the decision journey often reveals the need for a plan that will make the customer's experience coherent—and
~ Harvard Business School Press
One of these people—a Canadian, of all things—stands at the picture's center, organizing the many smaller pictures into a coherent whole. His willingness to throw open a window on the American financial world, and to show people what it has become, still takes my breath away.
~ Michael Lewis
Actually ideas are everywhere. It's the paperwork, that is, sitting down and thinking them into a coherent story, trying to find just the right words, that can and usually does get to be labor.
~ Fred Saberhagen
There may not be time.' Strax said, 'to conduct a full surveillance regime according to prescribed regulations in order to formulate a coherent strategy of the best method to effect entry.' 'That's true,' Madame Vastra agreed. 'So I suggest you simply break down this door.
~ Justin Richards
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
~ Fred Hoyle
I have no idea what you just said, child,' Breeze said. 'So I'm simply going to pretend it was coherent, then move on.
~ Brandon Sanderson
What do we call a story that's based on limited real data and imagined data and blended into a coherent, emotionally satisfying version of reality? A conspiracy theory.
~ Brene Brown
I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think it's fun to debate.
~ Ann Coulter
they have never presented a coherent and compelling explanation of why this market should be treated differently from other markets.
~ Karl Polanyi
My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. Your pajamas have Eeyore on them. I like Eeyore. He's sensible. A sober outlook on life never hurt anyone.
~ Ilona Andrews
The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick
The Conservative Party tries to avoid important but controversial issues of concern to Conservatives and Canadians in general. It is afraid to articulate any coherent philosophy to support its positions.
~ Maxime Bernier
Bobby should be coherent by this afternoon. He'd enjoy a visit." "The sheriff doesn't talk to us," Dayan said. "Oh, he will, I think. Just tell him that if he doesn't, Linda Real has some photos of him that she'll let you have.
~ Steven F. Havill
What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from pain, or whatever passes, with a city, for pain.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable.
~ Georg W. Hegel
Yet it all seemed inevitable and perhaps it was. Is it fruitless to think about the past and build up coherent pictures of how one's life went wrong?
~ Iris Murdoch
Good, you're awake. I trust you've healed enough over the past few hours to be a little more coherent, and little less miserable coherent, yes. Less miserable, no. Just a deferent kind of misery
~ Neal Shusterman