Best Sounder Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It is a sound principle of finance, and a still sounder principle of government, that those who have the duty of expending the revenue of a country should also be saddled with the responsibility of levying and providing it.”

Should Stills Country Government Sound Responsibility Principles Duty Finance Providing Revenue Sounder

Author:Wilfrid Laurier

“With a limited palette, the older painters could do just as well as today what they did was sounder.”

Wells Today Painter Palette Sounder

Author:Pierre-Auguste Renoir

“The War has been waged with success, although there have been in some instances errors and misfortunes. But the heart of the nation is sounder and its hopes brighter.”

Heart Has Beens War Nations Errors Instance Misfortunes Brighter Sounder

Book:Diary of Gideon Welles: Volumes I & II (Expanded)

Source: Diary of Gideon Welles: Volumes I & II (Expanded)

“We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.”

Men Long Sleep Animal Principles Ready Return Essentials Remains Defense Awake Beast Realising Dominant Recognise Civilisation Savagery Sounder

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

“Meditation may require a lifetime to master, but it will have been a lifetime well spent. ... If you want to judge your progress, ask yourself these questions: Am I more loving? Is my judgment sounder? Do I have more energy? Can my mind remain calm under provocation? Am I free from the conditioning of anger, fear, and greed? Spiritual awareness reveals itself as eloquently in character development and selfless action as in mystical states.”

“The most agreeable thing in life is worthy accomplishment. It is not possible that the idle tramp is as contented as the farmers along the road who own their own farms, and whose credit is good at the bank in town. When the tramps get together at night, they abuse the farmers, but do not get as much satisfaction out of it as do the farmers who abuse the tramps. The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.”

Together Life Is Night Argument Abuse Towns Satisfaction Worthy Credit Accomplishment Farms Farmers Things In Life Idle Get Together Tramps Sounder

Author:E. W. Howe

“Of course we will continue to work for cheaper electricity in the homes and on the farms of America; for better and cheaper transportation; for low interest rates; for sounder home financing; for better banking; for the regulation of security issues; for reciprocal trade among nations and for the wiping out of slums. And my friends, for all of these we have only begun to fight.”

“I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.”

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management. This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government.”

Firsts States Government Community Steps Cutting Citizens Management Sake Financial Budgets First Steps Sounder

Book:Speaking my mind: selected speeches

Source: Speaking my mind: selected speeches

“I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.”

“There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.”

Should Trying Wells Facts Simplicity Complicated Logical Hypothesis Maxims Procedures Razors Simplification Sounder

Book:Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism

Source: Pragmatism as a Principle and Method of Right Thinking: The 1903 Harvard Lectures on Pragmatism

“All government is an evil, but, of the two form's of that evil, democracy or monarchy, the sounder is monarchy; the more able to do its will, democracy.”

Two Government Able Form Evil Democracy Monarchy Sounder

Book:Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

Source: Correspondence and Table-talk: With a Memoir

“In my state, on the basis of the separate but equal doctrine, we have made enormous strides over the years in the education of both races. Personally, I think it would have been sounder judgment to allow that progress to continue through the process of natural evolution. However, there is no point crying about spilt milk.”

“When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.”

Feels Mind Sleep Alive Knees Thirty Seventies Sounder

Author:Maurice Chevalier

“I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.”

People Want Agree Protection Income Consumers Sounder Consumer Protection

Author:Jamie Dimon

“I was in California when this journalist made a blanket statement about the fact that she did not think that black men and women had the kind of love relationship that Rebecca and Nathan had in Sounder.”

Thinking Men Kind Made Facts Black Relationship Men And Women Statements Journalist California Blanket Love Relationship Kinds Of Love Rebecca Sounder Blanket Statements

Author:Cicely Tyson

“But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.”

Excellence Technique Occasions Sincerity Sounder

Book:A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros

Source: A Thornton Wilder Trio: The Cabala, The Bridge of San Luis Rey, The Woman of Andros

“Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he will develop in adult life a sounder sort of mental tissue, even though he may seem to be 'wasting' a great deal of his growing time, in the eyes of those for whom the only channels of learning are books and verbally communicated information.”

Source: Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals

“The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.”

Argument Satisfaction Sounder

Author:E. W. Howe

“Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.”

Wells Long Hate Hatred Trade Sells Repeats Merchandise Sounder

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.”

Body Envy Envied Sounder

Author:Arthur Chapman

“The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people are capable of reason, and that a community of people who choose to perfect this faculty and to exercise it openly and fairly can collectively reason their way to sounder conclusions in the long run. As Lincoln observed, you can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.”

Source: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.”

Practice Psychology Philosopher Crafts Dull Inventor Diplomats Financiers Sounder Experimental Psychology

Author:Oswald Spengler

“The subtleties of mathematics defecate the grossness of our apprehension, and supply the elements of a sounder and severer logic.”

Elements Logic Mathematics Statistics Subtlety Apprehension Sounder

Book:Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries

Source: Thoughts on Man, His Nature, Productions and Discoveries

“In all determinations of morality, this circumstance of public utility is ever principally in view; and wherever disputes arise, either in philosophy or common life, concerning the bounds of duty, the questions cannot, by any means, be decided with greater certainty, than by ascertaining, on any side, the true interests of mankind. If any false opinion, embraced from appearances, has been found to prevail; as soon as farther experience and sounder reasoning have given us juster notions of human affairs, we retract our first sentiment, and adjust anew the boundaries of moral good and evil.”

Source: Moral and Political Philosophy

“It can be said of him, when he departed he took a Man's life with him. No sounder piece of British manhood was put together in that eighteenth century of Time.”

Men Life Said Together Pieces Century British Manhood Departed Sounder

Author:John Keats

“Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.”

Men Death Dies Sleep Death And Dying No Fear Fear Of Death Fear Of Dying Sounder

Book:The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Humorous lieutenant. Faithfl shepherdess. Mad lover. Loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife

Source: The Dramatick Works of Beaumont and Fletcher: Humorous lieutenant. Faithfl shepherdess. Mad lover. Loyal subject. Rule a wife and have a wife

“Certainly all "progressive" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life.”

“If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the earth before we ask them to save it. Perhaps this is what Thoreau had in mind when he said, “the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.”

“Whatever the circumstances of your life, the understanding of type can make your perceptions clearer, your judgements sounder, and your life closer to your heart's desire”

Heart Desire Understanding Type Circumstances Perception Judgement Sounder

Author:Isabel Briggs Myers

“Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.”

Reason Faith Limits Guides Sounder

Author:Blaise Pascal

“I've always known I wanted to be an actor. It never crossed my mind to be anything else. I think I probably decided for sure when I saw 'Sounder'.”

Thinking Mind Wanted Actors Known Saws Decided Reefs Sounder

Author:Christopher Judge

“There is, I think, no point in the philosophy of progressive education which is sounder than its emphasis upon the importance of the participation of the learner in the formation of the purposes which direct his [sic] activities in the learning process, just as there is no defect in traditional education greater than its failure to secure the active cooperation of the pupil in construction of the purposes involved in his studying.”