#tendency

I guess my tendency is to think essentially that the new wrinkles won't do the job if the old major idea didn't, and so you have to try something different. Then maybe they can all be combined in some coherent piece. ↗

— Robert Nozick

#combined #different #essentially #guess #i

Because no matter what you say in life, the truth will always be the truth. You know when someone is telling the truth, you look in the eyes. I have a tendency to believe people. ↗

— Jean Claude Van Damme

#because #believe #eyes #i #know

An inborn tendency toward science turning it into a lifelong commitment. ↗

— Bruno Rossi

#inborn #into #lifelong #science #tendency

The tendency to gather and to breed philosophers in universities does not belong to ages of free and humane reflection: it is scholastic and proper to the Middle Ages and to Germany. ↗

— George Santayana

#belong #breed #does #free #gather

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#electrical #function #genius #i #i believe

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#direction #get #larger #larger companies #tendency

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong. ↗

— Peter Welch

#bad #common #common ground #confidence #disagree

Truth is a tendency. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#truth #truth is

Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void. ↗

— Hervey Allen

#borders #color #fatal #local #often

There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality. ↗

— Thomas Nagel

#admitting #before #everything #objective #reality