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Facile Quotes

Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence Picture Quote #1

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy Picture Quote #1

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations Picture Quote #1

Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison Picture Quote #1

Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page Picture Quote #1

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it Picture Quote #1

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The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people Picture Quote #1

A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself Picture Quote #1

Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track Picture Quote #1

Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace Picture Quote #1

Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat Picture Quote #1

Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am Picture Quote #1

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She gave me a disdainful look. Please don’t make facile judgments about things you don’t understand Picture Quote #1

I’m a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that Picture Quote #1

Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market Picture Quote #1

You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter Picture Quote #1

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Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence (Facile Quotes) The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy (Facile Quotes) For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations (Facile Quotes) Death comes at you no matter what you do in this life, and to equate drugs with death is a facile comparison (Facile Quotes) Writing, therefore, is also an act of courage. How much easier is it to lead an unexamined life than to confront yourself on the page? How much easier is it to surrended to materialism or cynicism or to a hundred other ways of life that are, in fact, ways to hide from life and from our fears. When we write, we resist the facile seduction of theses simpler roads. We insist on finding out and declaring the truths that we find, and we dare to out those truths on the page (Facile Quotes) Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it (Facile Quotes) The militia is the natural defense of a free country against sudden foreign invasions, domestic insurrections, and domestic usurpations of power by rulers. It is against sound policy for a free people to keep up large military establishments and standing armies in time of peace, both from the enormous expenses, with which they are attended, and the facile means, which they afford to ambitious and unprincipled rulers, to subvert the government, or trample upon the rights of the people (Facile Quotes) A strong will deals with the hard facts of life as a sculptor with his marbles, making them facile and yielding to his purposes, and conquering their stubbornness by a greater stubbornness in himself (Facile Quotes) Classical education has deformed everything, and has imposed upon us as geniuses men of correct, facile talent, who follow the beaten track (Facile Quotes) Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace (Facile Quotes) Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat (Facile Quotes) Am I too fast, too facile? I do not know. I do not know myself sometimes, or how to measure and name and count out the grains that make me what I am (Facile Quotes) She gave me a disdainful look. Please don’t make facile judgments about things you don’t understand (Facile Quotes) I’m a slow learner. When people are so talented or facile at picking up an instrument and playing covers, like Yo La Tengo, I admire that. But I could never do that (Facile Quotes) Making things difficult for the reader is less an attack on the reader than it is on the age and its facile knowledge-market. (Facile Quotes) You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter (Facile Quotes)