Quotes of: Tolstoy Keyword

I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.

Norman MacCaig

In an efficient market, at any point in time, the actual price of a security will be a good estimate of its intrinsic value.

Eugene Fama

What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.

Tom Stoppard

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Alexander Hamilton

As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.

Calvin Trillin

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Epictetus

The revolution lasted six minutes and covered one hundred an twelve meters.

Cordwainer Smith

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Jerome Bruner

An investor doesn't have a prayer of picking a manager that can deliver true alpha.

Eugene Fama

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

George Henry Lewes

Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our church. We are fighting today for costly grace.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I admire pop songs that are perfect at three minutes.

David Ives

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

Daniel Kahneman

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Stephen Hawking

I had wanted to write Ghost Country for a long time, but it wouldn't work.

Sara Paretsky

Science is the search for truth, that is the effort to understand the world: it involves the rejection of bias, of dogma, of revelation, but not the rejection of morality.

Linus Pauling

Technology gives us the facilities that lessen the barriers of time and distance - the telegraph and cable, the telephone, radio, and the rest.

Emily Greene Balch

Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere.

James Martineau

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran