Substitutes Quotes

Hope is not a substitute for pain. Hope is in spite of pain.

Training is useful but there is no substitute for experience.

A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring.

Mechanical rules are never a substitute for clarity of thought.

I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat.

Strictly speaking, there are no real substitutes for sexual satisfaction

Brains are no substitute for judgement.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

There can be no substitute for work, neither affection nor physical well-being can replace it.

No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage

There is no substitute for a local newspaper that is doing its job.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

There's no substitute for work. There are no shortcuts. There are no secrets.

Knowledge of yoga is no substitute for practice.

This is about objects, not motifs. The photo is only a substitute for an object; it is unsuitable as a picture in its customary sense.

In war, indeed, there can be no substitute for victory.

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

What is better than to sit at the end of the day and drink wine with friends, or substitutes for friends?

Process is not a substitute for skill.

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

There is no substitute for a militant freedom.

That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves

There is no substitute for attentive repetition.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.

All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

I like nature but not its substitutes... Mondrian opposed art to nature saying that art is artificial and nature is natural. I do not share this opinion... Art's origins are natural.

Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.

We must substitute courage for caution.

Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.

Nothing substitutes for positive thinking. Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.

Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.

The growth of populations has in no way increased the amount [of art], it has merely increased the adeptness with which substitutes can be produced and packaged.

Moralism is always the cheap substitute for mysticism.

Unless the reformer can invent something which substitutes attractive virtues for attractive vices, he will fail.

There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all its virtues are of no avail.

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence.

I have struggled against tyranny. I didn't do that in order to substitute another.

Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.

Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.

Regardless of whether you are an entrepreneur or whether you are an employee of a large company, the absolute prerequisite is that you must know your stuff. There is no substitute for this.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.

There is no substitute for experience

Utopianism substitutes glorious predictions and unachievable promises for knowledge, science, and reason, while laying claim to them all.

For a while in the twenties and thirties, art was talked about as a substitute for religion; now B movies are a substitute for religion.

There is no substitute for character. You can buy brains but you cannot buy character.