Rigor Quotes
Rigor Quote of the day
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark
The art of music is so deep and profound that to approach it very seriously only is not enough. One must approach music with a serious rigor and, at the same time, with a great, affectionate joy.
If you would fall into any extreme, let it be on the side of gentleness. The human mind is so constructed that it resists rigor, and yields to softness.
One must be truthful with oneself about one's own motives, especially if one is to survive in the world. It takes rigor, and it takes courage.
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it Hilbert's, Einstein's or Gödel's intuition.
But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.
The completion of my undergraduate training at the University of California (Berkeley) provided just the needed touches of rigor at advanced levels in both economics and mathematics.
It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
The social sciences, I thought, needed the same kind of rigor and the same mathematical underpinnings that had made the 'hard' sciences so brilliantly successful.
Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.
Grow with discipline. Balance intuition with rigor. Innovate around the core. Don't embrace the status quo.
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest.
A habit of labor in the people is as essential to the health and rigor of their minds and bodies as it is conducive to the welfare of the state.
If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law.
Affections injured by tyranny, or rigor of compulsion, like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, never spring to timely growth
Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.
Cruelty signifies rigor, implacable intention and decision, irreversible and absolute determination.
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
Rigor is always appropriate when investing in markets, whatever the ultimate conclusions may be.
Somebody else does the rigor and then I listen. I have an assistant, and my manager, and other people who hunt and find and send it to me, and then I just figure out which ones I can do justice to.
Flowers . . . have a mysterious and subtle influence upon the feelings, not unlike some strains of music. They relax the tenseness of the mind. They dissolve its rigor.
The use of mathematics has brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it has also brought mortis.
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions.
The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.
In intellectual honesty, we should be willing to study and explore the spiritual life with all the rigor and determination we would give to any field of research.
One of the strangest things about writing well is that it requires two different zones in the brain--rigor and recklessness--simultaneously.
There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.
The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.
I reiterate that the rigor and credibility brought to the world by Monti's government are for us a point of no return.
Rigor pushed too far is sure to miss its aim, however good, as the bow snaps that is bent too stiffly.
In Necessary Marriage, I tried to repeat entire phrases without the reader noticing. My work doesn't have the rigor of music, but I hope it alludes to it.
A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.
Some have argued that the Christian notion of Scripture is not epistemologically sustainable. It's not philosophically possible with rigor to uphold the Christian understanding of Scripture.
How to teach rigor while preserving imagination is an unsolved challenge to education.
I particularly like the catchphrase of Leonardo Da Vinci: Ostinato Rigore! (Which means, pretty much, Relentless Rigor).
Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.