Quotes About Applicability

Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use.

Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

Laws should be like clothes. They should be made to fit the people they are meant to serve.

Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.

Everything practical and applicable is impractictal and inapplicable to the inactive participant.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

Truth is what works.

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.

All the good things of the world are no further good to us than as they are of use; and of all we may heap up we enjoy only as much as we can use, and no more.

When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again. - The Trouble With Reading

The best tool for any task is the one that you'll actually use.

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal applicability and its thiswordliness.

Books should have a purpose. Books should be practical in some sense.

Contrary to common belief, the presumption of innocence applies only inside a courtroom. It has no applicability elsewhere, although the media do not seem to be aware of this.

Since DIM categories are epistemological, their applicability to a given individual is determined not by his mind's content, but by its method—not by what he thinks, but by why he thinks it.

A theory is more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises, the more different are the kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its range of applicability.

Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.

Not every opportunity is relevant and applicable since opportunities that fail to match, with one's thoughts, character, and nature, become consistently unsuitable and worthless.

If you're not ready the moment things happen, then you're irrelevant, you might as well not go.

The power of skills and knowledge is that they are transferable from one person to another. Their limitation is that they are often situation-specific — faced with an unanticipated scenario, they lose much of their power. In contrast, the power of talent is that it is transferable from situation to situation.

The power of a theory is exactly proportional to the diversity of situations it can explain.

Confusing a model – such as that of a perfectly competitive market – with the theory of which it is one representation can limit applicability still further.

It's easy for our young people to think of the biblical stories as taking place long, long ago and far, far away, and thus having no real relevance for our contemporary situation.

laws evolved by one particular species, for the convenience of that species, are, by their nature, concerned only with the capacities of that species—against a species with different capacities they simply become inapplicable.