Quotes About Statements

As far as the praise of knowledge is concerned, al-Askarî otherwise restricts himself to some of the more ordinary statements, such as the hadîth affi rming the Prophet's permission to use attery and show envy in connection with knowledge, or Alî's famous remark that a man's value consists in what he knows or does well.

In a society run by terror, no statements whatsoever can be taken seriously. They are all forced, and it is the duty of every honest man to ignore them.

for she knows that the contrast between what Leroy used to say and what he's professing today doesn't matter in the slightest. Because one idea is as good as another. Because all statements and positions carry the same value, can rub against one another, nestle, snuggle, fondle, mingle, diddle, cuddle, couple.

I love when clothes make cultural statements and I think personal style is really cool.

Statements of fact are after all statements, which presumes a number of questionable judgements: that those statements are worth making, perhaps more worth making than certain others, that I am the sort of person entitled to make them and perhaps able to guarantee their truth, that you are the kind of person worth making them to, that something useful is accomplished by making them, and so on.

First, he evaluates a business on its long-term rather than its short-term prospects. Second, he always looks for businesses he understands. (This led him to avoid many Internet-related investments.) And third, when he examines financial statements, he places the greatest emphasis on a measure of cash flow that he calls owner earnings.

There can be no ultimate statements science: there can be no statements in science which can not be tested, and therefore none which cannot in principle be refuted, by falsifying some of the conclusions which can be deduced from them.

The FBI is supposed to investigate criminal activities, but, like the old Soviet secret police, it seems also to take note of gatherings and public statements where the government is criticized.

The royal family's existence is a constant reminder of the hollowness of John Major's rhetoric, and idiotic statements by its leading members a constant boost to the republican cause. They're fine opening hospitals. It's when they open their mouths they get into trouble.

Donald Trump tests the limits of campaign speech. He makes false statements and refuses to correct them. He attacks other religions and ethnic groups, inflaming domestic tension and foreign terrorist rage.

Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage.

I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.

after thirty years' hostile fellowship with Collie, of course she did quite well understand that collie had a habit of skipping several stages in the logical sequence of her thoughts and would utter apparently disconnected statements, especially when confused by unfamiliar subject or the presence of a man

Direct action, straightforward statements; obviously, those were the keys to improving my life.

Evidence is often particularly abundant when it comes to statements about history, yet the anointed have repeatedly been as demonstrably wrong about the past as about the present or the future—and as supremely confident.

Fruitful discourse in science or theology requires us to believe that within the contexts of normal discourse there are some true statements.

Packages can provide a way to offer clients incremental access to upgrades. By introducing new classes in a new package, you can give them the same name as the old classes. For example, if I can upgrade org.junit.Assert in org.junit.newandimproved.Assert, then clients need only change the import statements to be using the new class. Changing imports is less risky and intrusive than changing code.

theologians are different in this respect, at any rate; at least they are sure that God exists, even though they make contradictory statements about Him.

The individual, however, as an irrational datum, is the true and authentic carrier of reality, the concrete man as opposed to the unreal ideal or normal man to whom the scientific statements refer.

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

The analysis was the most difficult of the three by all odds. When Holk, after two days of steady work, succeeded in eliminating meaningless statements, vague gibberish, useless qualifications - in short, all the goo and dribble - he found he had nothing left. Everything cancelled out. Lord Dorwin, gentlemen, in five days of discussion didn't say one damned thing, and said it so you never noticed.

Es sorprendente que una colección de declaraciones que son individualmente ciertas puedan usarse, combinadas, para conseguir un resultado que no se hubiera logrado con la verdad.

I don't like to make strong statements. I want to write strong novels … I keep my deep radical things for my novels.

while the statements are dressed up to look as if they were made for the benefit of the collective.