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Quotes About Untried

I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but I know also that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.…
~ Jon Meacham
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
~ Abraham Lincoln
What is conservativism? Is it not the aherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
~ Abraham Lincoln
What kind of fool had he been, to throw away romance untried?
~ Piers Anthony
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Ask, and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!
~ Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth
Dead. Never been that before. Not even once.
~ Jasper Fforde
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
~ Abraham Lincoln
What is conservatism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
~ Abraham Lincoln
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; the one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other inclined to prohibit him from thinking at all.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Today I was a teacher, employed. True, I was also a teacher untried, but that could also be an advantage. I would learn, by God I'd learn. Nothing was going to stop me.
~ E.R. Braithwaite
Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.
~ Herman Melville
I suppose it is the way with all men and women who reach middle age without the clear perception that life never can be thoroughly joyous: under the vague dulness of the grey hours, dissatisfaction seeks a definite object, and finds it in the privation of an untried good.
~ George Eliot
The mind as well as the body must be not only strong but well disciplined in order to act with promptness and vigor in new and untried situations. It is hard to turn men's minds from the old and deeply worn channels in which they have long been flowing.
~ Benjamin Robbins Curtis
To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.
~ Michael Joseph Oakeshott
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms… this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried.
~ Francis Bacon
Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors. They have told me nothing, and probably cannot tell me anything to the purpose. Here is life, an experiment to a great extent untried by me; but it does not avail me that they have tried it. If I have any experience which I think valuable, I am sure to reflect that this my Mentors said nothing about
~ Henry David Thoreau
We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard sent on through the wilderness of untried things...
~ Herman Melville
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
~ G.K. Chesterton
What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?
~ Abraham Lincoln
Hunter's already low spirits plummeted. It was a sad state of affairs when an untried boy had more luck with women than a grown man.
~ Catherine Anderson
In the principle of equality I very clearly discern two tendencies; one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts, the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
I've never done anything like this before." "None of us had, until we did
~ Nick Hornby