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Method Quotes - Page 6

The business and method of mysticism is love.

Evelyn Underhill (2003). “Evelyn Underhill: Essential Writings”

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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Dwight David Eisenhower (1963). “The white house years: mandate for change 1953-1956”

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method.

Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

I'm not against the technology at all, I just don't like to use it if it's just to mimic what you can do with traditional methods.

"Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

Michael Shermer (2002). “Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time”, p.17, Holt Paperbacks

I always begin at the left with the opening word of the sentence and read toward the right and I recommend this method.

James Thurber (1990). “Collecting Himself: James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself”

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Henry Mayhew (1851). “London Labour and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia of the Condition and Earnings of Those that Will Work, Those that Cannot Work, and Those that Will Not Work”, p.158

In recent times, Surrealist painters have used descriptive illusionistic academic methods.

"Jours effeuillés: Poèmes, essais, souvenirs 1920-1965". Book by Jean/Hans Arp, p. 63, 1966.

There is no greater method for experiencing peace of mind and happiness than to understand and meditate on Emptiness.

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.104, Tharpa Publications US

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

Well, I have a very simple method of painting.

"Oral history interview with Edward Hopper". Interview with John Morse, www.aaa.si.edu. June 17, 1959.