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Quotes About Independent

objectivity arose from subjectivity—the recognition that two minds could have different representations of the world and that the world has an existence independent of either representation. This
~ Richard E. Nisbett
So, Spinoza went off, not as a victim or a pariah but as an independent Portuguese person living in Amsterdam. In so doing, he became one of the first people to live outside of any religious affiliation.
~ Richard H. Popkin
Stanley's breakthrough came in studying the Siemens system. He realized, he said, that if he could make an induction coil—a "transformer," he called it now—wired in parallel rather than in series, each coil would operate independently. That arrangement would keep the current steady whatever the demand and even if a component failed.
~ Richard Rhodes
She was fierce and opaque, and not breakable.
~ Kate Christensen
They tend to be entrepreneurial rather than managerial; they
~ Ken Auletta
It is a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
~ Thomas Jefferson
I am a habitual rule-breaker
~ Mohadesa Najumi
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
~ William Minto
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
~ William S. Burroughs
I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.
~ Woody Allen
I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.
~ Woody Allen
But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel — independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.
~ David Nicholls
The neurons in the gut are so innumerable that scientist are now calling the totality of them "the second brain"... In fact, recent research is revaling that our second brain may not be second at all. It can act independently from the main brain and control many functions without the brain's input.
~ David Perlmutter
The neurons in the gut are so innumerable that scientist are now calling the totality of them "the second brain"... In fact, recent research is revaling that our second brain may not be second at all. It can act independently from the main brain and control many functions without the brain's input or help.
~ David Perlmutter
One cannot escape the feeling that these mathematical formulas have an independent existence and an intelligence of their own, that they are wiser than we are, wiser even than their discoverers.
~ Heinrich Hertz
James Madison wrote, "each state … is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation then the new Constitution will … be a. federal and not a national constitution.
~ Jay Winik
We painted embroidered and made collages. All these works were drawn from the simplest forms and were probably the first examples of concrete art. These works are realities pure and independent with no meaning or cerebral intention. We rejected all mimesis and description, giving free reign to the elementary and spontaneous.
~ Jean Arp
emotions that fuel love are ageless; they live in our heart, and therefore operate independently of our bodies.
~ Elizabeth Berg
I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm considered a difficult girl. I have a reputation for needing to be told a good reason to do something before I will do it. ~ Tulsi
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Pure, clean, void, tranquil, breathless, selfless, endless, undecaying, steadfast, eternal, unborn, independent, he abides in his own greatness
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Would it make a difference if I were bothered? I have some other skills not usually seen in ladies: swimming, as I told you, and how to shoot a gun. I can bargain down a butcher to within an inch of his life. I know how to make soap and how to put a bill collector off. I can do mending but not embroidery, can drive a cart but not ride a horse, know how to grow cabbages and carrots and even make them into a nice soup, but I haven't the least idea how to trellis roses.
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
None. I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle." Mr. Fletcher's pepper-and-salt eyebrows lifted. I added, "For myself, that is. I suppose it is well enough for some women; what else can the poor things do? But why should any independent, intelligent female choose to subject herself to the whims and tyrannies of a husband? I assure you, I have yet to meet a man as sensible as myself!
~ Elizabeth Peters
Contrary to rationalism, there are no a priori concepts; but contrary to empiricism, there are axiomatic concepts about which we can be certain; contrary to both schools, perception is not awareness of images, impressions, or sense data, but of objects that exist independent of our awareness of them.
~ Allan Gotthelf