Method Quotes

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

If you've got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn't prove it.

The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age.

Be firm on principle but flexible on method.

The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion.

My method to overcome a difficulty is to go round it.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

There is no method but to be very intelligent.

Once a new paradigm takes hold, its acceptance is extraordinarily rapid and one finds few who claim to have adhered to a discarded method.

However, it must always remain a dialogue, and never an imposition of the church's own convictions and methods. Propose, not impose. To serve, and not to dominate.

My method is basically the same as Masters and Johnson, only they charge thousands of dollars and it's called therapy. I charge fifty dollars and it's called prostitution.

I do believe in [Robert] Bresson's method of creation through omission, not through addition.

There is a point at which methods devour themselves.

I will listen to any hypothesis but on one condition-that you show me a method by which it can be tested.

A perfect method for awakening is to examine the results of our daily actions. If they are harmful, we know we need more consciousness.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

Keeping quiet and letting the others do the talking. That may be Angela Merkel's method, but it's not mine.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.

The surest method against scandal is to live it down by perseverance in well-doing, and by prayer to God that He would cure the distempered mind of those who traduce and injure us.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

We should never allow presentation to become a casualty of method.

...any effect to be successful must first be founded upon a simple method and then be performed with a direct to-the-point presentation.

The quickest method for understanding and living your purpose, is to ask yourself if you're thinking in loving ways.

Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.

The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or a species which is being tested for viability in that niche.

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.

Capitalism in its imperialistic stage is a system which regards war as a legitimate method for solution of international disputes - a method which is legitimate in fact if not legally so.

I have no rules and no methods... no secrets.

I actually don't have a problem with shooting and then just walking away and forgetting about it. I'm not really like a Method actor or an old soul. It doesn't stay with me.

When you approach intuitive methods with respect, you become open to hearing from your interior channels.

Comedy's my first love. I love that so much. You play comedy in drama, too. The difference between genres doesn't really change the method of acting.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

The only purpose of education is freedom; the only method is experience.

There is no method by which an average citizen can effectively fight the White House in the media.

The particular features of the photographic method of detecting atomic particles enabled us to establish the existence of transient forms of matter which had escaped recognition by other methods.

Democracy, thus French revolution, was not invented by philosophic theory nor by the bourgeois leadership. It was discovered by the masses in their method of action.

Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides.

Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.

This attitude [the abstract method in mathematics] can be encapsulated in the following slogan: a mathematical object is what it does.

In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.