Quotes of: Locke Keyword

The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.

Emile Durkheim

Our problem, from the point of view of psychology and from the point of view of genetic epistemology, is to explain how the transition is made from a lower level of knowledge to a level that is judged to be higher.

Jean Piaget

The true knowledge or science which exists nowhere but in the mind itself, has no other entity at all besides intelligibility; and therefore whatsoever is clearly intelligible, is absolutely true.

Ralph Cudworth

A knowledge of the forces that rule society, of the causes that have produced its upheavals, and of society's resources for promoting healthy progress has become of vital concern to our civilization.

Wilhelm Dilthey

The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.

Jeremy Rifkin

It's only been a couple of times in my life that I've really locked horns with actors. It did not hurt the films, it just hurt the moment of the filmmaking.

Richard Donner

I've had a terrific life, from building one company to be the second largest company in the securities industry and merging that into American Express, and becoming president of that company.

Sanford I. Weill

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Thomas Sowell

I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.

Yahya Jammeh

Bureaucrats sometimes do not have the correct information, while citizens and users of resources do.

Elinor Ostrom

Being pregnant was a lot like being a child again. There was always someone telling you what to do.

Emily Oster

One of the big take-aways from a lot of economic theory is that people should engage in consumption smoothing.

Emily Oster

In the long run all producers are forced to use the most efficient methods or give place to others who do.

Frank Knight

Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of the common welfare.

Friedrich List

If NATO goes in and solves the crisis in Darfur, when the next one comes along Africa's leaders will just sit back.

George Ayittey

When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.

George Ayittey

Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

George Ayittey

The election of Senator Barack Obama brought jubilation across Africa, where millions celebrated him as 'one of their own.'

George Ayittey

Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.

Clayton M. Christensen

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.

Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

Cat Power