Variance Quotes

Variance Quote of the day

We shall find in our troubled hearts, where discord reigns, two needs which seem at variance, but which merge, as I think, in a common source - the love of the true, and the love of the fabulous.

We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.

To foment grievance and to set men at variance is the trade by which agitators thrive and journalists make money.

Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.

I always remind myself that what one observes is at best a combination of variance and returns, not just returns.

The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic.

There is an untroubled harmony in everything, a full consonance in nature; only in our illusory freedom do we feel at variance with it.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

The hardest thing over the years has been having the courage to go against the dominant wisdom of the time, to have a view that is at variance with the present consensus and bet that view.

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.

Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentions

As all truth is from God, it necessarily follows that true science and true religion can never be at variance.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

What sets men at variance is but the treachery of language, for always they desire the same things.

Progress of any kind is always at variance with the old and established ideas and therefore with the codes inspired by them. Every step of progress is a change involving heavy risks.

A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.

Men whose acts are at variance with their words command no respect, and what they say has but little weight.

It is extremely unfortunate that an editor's own life and practice should be notoriously at variance with his written principles.

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's a little behind, you just hope it meshes.

Sound policy is never at variance with substantial justice.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance.

All the world's a stage ... and you better have a zoning variance or it's coming down.