Incomplete Quotes

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

The truth of the matter is, the birds could very well live without us, but many -- perhaps all -- of us would find life incomplete, indeed almost intolerable without the birds.

There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.

Some of the greatest moments in life come from moments that are incomplete.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

The incomplete knowledge of a system must be an essential part of every formulation in quantum theory. Quantum theoretical laws must be of a statistical kind. To give an example: we know that the radium atom emits alpha-radiation. Quantum theory can give us an indication of the probability that the alpha-particle will leave the nucleus in unit time, but it cannot predict at what precise point in time the emission will occur, for this is uncertain in principle.

Two incomplete people can't complete one another. Complete yourself and then let someone else complement you.

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

We absolutely must leave room for doubt or there is no progress and there is no learning. There is no learning without having to pose a question. And a question requires doubt. People search for certainty. But there is no certainty. People are terrified — how can you live and not know? It is not odd at all. You only think you know, as a matter of fact. And most of your actions are based on incomplete knowledge and you really don’t know what it is all about, or what the purpose of the world is, or know a great deal of other things. It is possible to live and not know.

Delight is incomplete until it is expressed.

Nothing goes perfectly for us. But... being incomplete is what pushes us onward to the next something... If we were even perfectly satisfied, what meaning would the rest of our lives hold, right?

There is no conflict between science and religion. Conflict only arises from an incomplete knowledge of either science or religion, or both.

My statements aren't incomplete, they're just in-progress. It's a debate and a discussion.

Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain.

The true genius shudders at incompleteness.

One's complete sentences are attempts, as often as not, to complete an incomplete self with words.

Among other grand achievements, F. A. Hayek had a remarkable career pointing out the flaws in collectivism. One of his keenest insights was that, paradoxically, any collectivist system necessarily depends on one individual (or small group) to make key social and economic decisions. In contrast, a system based on individualism takes advantage of the aggregate, or 'collective,' information of the whole society; through his actions each participant contributes his own particular, if incomplete, knowledge-information that could never be tapped by the individual at the head of a collectivist state.

Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading.

And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest.

Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory.

An incomplete sketch superbly executed is power.

It amazes me how much of what passes for knowledge in cancer therapy turns out to be incomplete, inadequate, and anecdotal.

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

Something is always wanting to incomplete fortune. [Lat., Curtae nescio quid semper abest rei.]