(280 quotes found)
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.”
Confucius
“Cats are dangerous companions for writers because cat watching is a near-perfect method of writing avoidance”
Dan Greenburg
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”
“An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct”
Voltaire
“It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.”
Albert Einstein
“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”
Robert M. Pirsig
“It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how life is better for everyone... The aim of the system must be clear to everyone in the system. The aim must include plans for the future. The aim is a value judgment.”
W. Edwards Deming
“The true method of knowledge is experiment.”
William Blake
“There is one thing even more vital to science than intelligent methods; and that is, the sincere desire to find out the truth, whatever it may be.”
Charles Pierce
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