
„A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.“
— Philippa Gregory, buch The White Queen
Quelle: The White Queen
Quelle: My Life
„A man will always promise to do more than he can do to a woman he cannot understand.“
— Philippa Gregory, buch The White Queen
Quelle: The White Queen
„There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.“
— Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947
„Before a man can do things there must be things he will not do.“
— Mencius Chinese philosopher -372 - -289 v.Chr
Eugene H. Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction, IVP, start of Ch 2.
Attributed
Quelle: Also quoted elsewhere and attributed to Mencius as "Only when there are things a man will not do is he capable of doing great things," again with no source.
— Emilio De Bono Italian General 1866 - 1944
Quoted in "Mussolini: Twilight and Fall" - Page 129 - by Roman Dąbrowski - Italy - 1956
— Thomas Carlyle Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher 1795 - 1881
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
Kontext: In all cases, therefore, we will agree with the judicious Mrs. Glass: 'First catch your hare!' First get your man; all is got: he can learn to do all things, from making boots, to decreeing judgments, governing communities; and will do them like a man.
„A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest.“
— H. Havelock Ellis British physician, writer, and social reformer 1859 - 1939
Quelle: The Dance of Life http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300671.txt (1923), Ch. 5
— William Faulkner American writer 1897 - 1962
An answer to a student's question as to why he writes in long sentences during his Writer-in-Residence time at the University of Virginia in 1957-1958. Faulkner in the University, p. 84
Faulkner in the University (1959)
— Kurt Koffka German psychologist 1886 - 1941
Quelle: Principles of Gestalt Psychology, 1935, p. 176
Kontext: Even these humble objects reveal that our reality is not a mere collocation of elemental facts, but consists of units in which no part exists by itself, where each part points beyond itself and implies a larger whole. Facts and significance cease to be two concepts belonging to different realms, since a fact is always a fact in an intrinsically coherent whole. We could solve no problem of organization by solving it for each point separately, one after the other; the solution had to come for the whole. Thus we see how the problem of significance is closely bound up with the problem of the relation between the whole and its parts. It has been said: The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is more correct to say that the whole is something else than the sum of its parts, because summing is a meaningless procedure, whereas the whole-part relationship is meaningful.
— Duane Gish American biochemist 1921 - 2013
Gish has repeatedly been challenged to support this claim, but has failed to do so: ** Source http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/cre-error.html
„A system is more than the sum of its parts.“
— Walter F. Buckley American sociologist 1922 - 2006
Quelle: Sociology and modern systems theory (1967), p. 42.
— Jean Paul Sartre French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary cri… 1905 - 1980
— Christopher Langton American computer scientist 1949
Christopher Langton, as quoted by John Horgan, The End of Science (1996) p. 201.
„A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts.“
— James Allen, buch As a Man Thinketh
As A Man Thinketh (1902)
Quelle: As a Man Thinketh
„Perhaps not willingly, but pain can make a man do things he wouldn't willingly do.“
— Anne Bishop American fiction writer 1955
Quelle: Daughter of the Blood