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Quotes About Partial

I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case.
~ Mario Monti
It explains why we can think fast, and how we are able to make sense of partial information in a complex world.
~ Daniel Kahneman
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragment, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
~ Alan Marshall Beck
Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn't catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don't exist.
~ Rebecca Solnit
It was a fine hat. Had a plume... Made her eyes so green... Very good color---green, Bullton agreed wistfully. Particularly for eyes, Kit mused. But I'm partial to hazel. Hazel is green with blue and bits of gold in it, he explained to Bullton. Are you, sir? Are you really partial to hazel? Bullton solemnly wanted to know. Very, very partial, Kit said dreamily.
~ Julie Anne Long
I am partial to ladies if they are nice. I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it.
~ Daisy Ashford
Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.
~ Arthur Tappan Pierson
If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.
~ Bob Marley
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope.
~ Gabriel Marcel
In this spirit, Marxists recognize that all social analyses, no matter which theoretical framework is used to produce them, are partial and never complete or finished, No one can understand or write the whole story about how a society is structured and how it is changing.
~ Richard D. Wolff
harm can be done by those who proffer an opinion when they are only in partial possession of the facts. A man might do better to hold his tongue than scatter words without a care as to where they might land.
~ Kate Mosse
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.
~ William Osler
It wasn't nothing, but it wasn't everything either.
~ Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.
~ Alistair Begg
Everyone thinks; it is our nature to do so. But much of our thinking, left to itself, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed or down-right prejudiced. Yet the quality of our life and that of what we produce, make, or build depends precisely on the quality of our thought. Shoddy thinking is costly, both in money and in quality of life. Excellence in thought, however, must be systematically cultivated.
~ Richard Paul
Their relationship was as one-sided as a pizza.
~ Richard Paul Evans
The fact is that man's mind is limited, and his understanding only partial. The biblical narrative makes this point unequivocally with respect to Moses, in reporting that he could not see God's face, but only his back.59 And it was no less true of the other prophets of Israel, who saw things in different ways because each of them was limited in his understanding, and to his own point of vantage.60
~ Yoram Hazony
Progress is unimaginably difficult, dangerous, always at risk, always made by people with only partial vision.
~ Larry Kramer
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life.
~ Neil Diamond
As Uncle Hegel used to enjoy pointing out, the trouble with perspectives is that they are, by definition, PARTIAL points of view; the Real problems are appreciated only when, in the course of the development of the World Spirit, the limits of perspective come to be transcended. Or, to put it less technically, it helps to be able to see the whole elephant.
~ Jerry A. Fodor
All I'm going to tell you is investigations, whether it be this and others, where you have partial facts, analysts, agents are always trying to interpret what those facts mean, extrapolate from them what they mean.
~ Robert Mueller
What does 'politicizing intelligence' mean? Using intel, or more often, partial intel, to produce an effect in line with White House policies rather than giving a full picture of a particular situation.
~ Elliott Abrams
Page 363: …an ethnic party system is highly vulnerable to being transformed into an authoritarian but no less ethnically partial regime
~ Donald L. Horowitz