#insufficient

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. ↗

— Rene Daumal

#common #confers #currency #drawn #exchange

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. ↗

— Maimonides

#another #capacity #certain #discover #during

People with insufficient personalities are fond of cats. These people adore being ignored. ↗

— Henry Morgan

#being #being ignored #cats #fond #ignored

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#after #anything #be true #belief #believe

I always say I've given 24 insufficient performances and I'm looking forward to the time in my life when I'll do something that I think is good. There's always stuff you can do better, stuff that maybe you didn't uncover enough. But if you do something that you truly believe is perfect, then that's got to be the last movie you do. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#believe #better #enough #forward #given

We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. ↗

— Allen Weinstein

#civic #concerns #democratic #dependence #education

I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#believe #civilized #civilized man #day #discharge

There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. ↗

— Steve Chabot

#city council #council #enforcement #general #insufficient

Virtue is insufficient temptation. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#temptation #virtue

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. ↗