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“Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost.”

Knows Science Desire Taste Cost Blind

Book:Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

Source: Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

“Every work of art should give utterance, or indicate, the awful blind strength and the cruelty of the creative impulse, that is why they must all have what are called errors, both of taste and style.”

Giving Should Art Creative Style Strength Taste Blind Errors Cruelty Awful Impulse Works Of Art Utterance

Book:A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973

Source: A Web of Friendship: Selected Letters, 1928-1973

“She was moved by a kind of commiseration... a pity for that colorless existence which never uplifted its possessor beyond the region of blind contentment, in which no moment of anguish ever visited her soul, in which she would never have the taste of life's delirium.”

Kind Soul Moments Existence Taste Blind Moved Pity Contentment Regions Anguish Delirium Colorless Delirium Tremens Taste Of Life

Book:THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South

Source: THE AWAKENING - A Solitary Soul (Feminist Classics Series): One Women's Story from the Turn-Of-The-Century American South

“Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.”

Men Play Whole Wise Taste Blind Blind Man Bluffs

Author:Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

“His dreams had always been Houdiniesque: they were the dreams of a pupa struggling in its blind cocoon, mad for a taste of light and air.”

Dream Light Struggle Air Taste Blind Mad Cocoons

Book:The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

“Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.”

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

“The entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. They shouldn't have cared so much that they were losing blind taste tests with old Coke, and we shouldn't at all be surprised that Pepsi's dominance in blind taste tests never translated to much in the real world. Why not? Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind.”

World Real Principles Drink Taste Losing Tests Blind Ridiculous Why Not Real World Dominance Coke Coca Cola Pepsi

Author:Malcolm Gladwell