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Insufficient facts always invite danger. -- Leonard Nimoy
We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.' -- Sandy Smith
What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustration and jealousy under better control."For one thing, Djetth, he wasn't trying to kill me!"("Marsh", heroine of Insufficient Mating Material) -- Rowena Cherry
Virtue is insufficient temptation. -- George Bernard Shaw
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. -- Samuel Butler
Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live on. -- George Santayana
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. -- William Kingdon Clifford
It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. -- William James
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. -- Konrad Lorenz
To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. -- William Kingdon Clifford
There is insufficient support for the police and safety and law enforcement, in general, in the city council. -- Steve Chabot
In the '90s, there was scant presidential leadership and insufficient domestic political mobilization for foreign policy grounded in human rights. -- Samantha Power
Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war. -- Conrad Black
The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. -- Pope Benedict XVI
We live in a world of increasing dependence on electronic records and retrieval, unprecedented security and preservation concerns, and insufficient attention to civic and democratic education. -- Allen Weinstein
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. -- Learned Hand
Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. -- Jenny Shipley
Throughout the 19th century, when there was a laissez-faire mentality and insufficient regulation, you had one crisis after another. Each crisis brought about some reform. That is how central banking developed. -- George Soros
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds. -- Rene Daumal
I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true. -- Margaret Heffernan
We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals. No, I refuse to pretend the problem is insufficient knowledge. We lack the theological will to do it. -- Jonathan Kozol
Furthermore, the study of the present surroundings is insufficient: the history of the people, the influence of the regions through which it has passed on its migrations, and the people with whom it came into contact, must be considered. -- Franz Boas
In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. -- William Kingdon Clifford
Despite the characterization of some that teaching is an easy job, with short hours and summers off, the fact is that successful, dedicated teachers in the U.S. work long hours for little pay and, in many cases, insufficient support from their leadership. -- Andreas Schleicher
When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm. -- Samantha Power
Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality. -- Chelsea Clinton
While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it. -- Maimonides
Sustainability is a seemingly laudable goal - it tells us we need to live within our means, whether economic, ecological, or political - but it's insufficient for uncertain times. How can we live within our means when those very means can change, swiftly and unexpectedly, beneath us? -- Jamais Cascio
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
All decisions are made on insufficient evidence. -- Rita Mae Brown
I have found God, but he is insufficient. -- Henry Miller
With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong. -- Carl Sagan
How dangerous it is to reason from insufficient data. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence. -- Sam Harris
Poor form in the gym is caused by insufficient yelling. -- Mark Rippetoe
There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer. -- Isaac Asimov
Three problems we have: lack of boundaries, insufficient language, incompletions. -- Thomas Leonard
Individual learning is a necessary but insufficient condition for organizational learning. -- Chris Argyris
Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. -- Isaac Asimov
Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses. -- John Simon
Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength; attacking, a superabundance of strength. -- Sun Tzu
The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy. -- Dean Koontz
Wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner. -- Pope Leo XIII
Wealth increaseth, but a nameless something is ever wanting to our insufficient fortune. -- Horace
To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient. -- Ihara Saikaku
When mores are sufficient, laws are unnecessary; when mores are insufficient, laws are unenforceable. -- Emile Durkheim
When morals are sufficient, law is unnecessary; when morals are insufficient, law is unenforceable. -- Emile Durkheim
America today has insufficient savings to finance both crucial investment and its consumption of imports. -- James Dale Davidson
There are no bad people, there are people with insufficient information to make appropriate decisions. -- Jacque Fresco
It is insufficient to protect ourselves with laws; we need to protect ourselves with mathematics. -- Bruce Schneier
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. -- Sylvie Guillem
I believe that present day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive -- Konrad Lorenz
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient. -- Jan C. Ting
without fiction, either life would be insufficient or the winds from the north would blow too cold. -- Elizabeth Bowen
Every one knows that insufficient rest and gorging are not good for anyone, either physically or mentally. -- Henry Ford
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. -- Jane Austen
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time. -- Clement Freud
We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. -- Martin Luther
With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In Kali yuga, duration of life is shortened not so much because insufficient food but because of irregular habits. -- Radhanath Swami
America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.' -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid. -- Joel Stein
And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have. -- Stephen Dunn
The mark of an educated man is the ability to make a reasoned guess on the basis of insufficient information. -- Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Reports in matters of this world are many, and our resources of mind for the discrimination of them very insufficient -- John Newman
Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage. -- Charles Bukowski
Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself. -- Jack McDevitt
Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
It's imprecise and insufficient, defining the homosexual as a person whose gender expression is at odds with his or her sex. -- Alison Bechdel
I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools. -- Pope Benedict XVI
It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it. -- Mike Pence
It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect. -- Immanuel Kant
Courage is the human virtue that counts most-courage to act on limited knowledge and insufficient evidence. That's all any of us have. -- Robert Frost
If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do. -- Peter Boghossian
I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the dead. -- Niall Ferguson
I had ... come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. -- Danny Glover
Solid information is necessary, but insufficient. We also need to present that information in ways that are inspiring and accessible. That's where stories come in. -- Annie Leonard
Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house. -- Mark Lawrence
At the present time there exist problems beyond our ability to solve, not because of theoretical difficulties, but because of insufficient means of mechanical computation. -- Howard Aiken
The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence. -- Jenny Shipley
The hard struggle which the Pan-Germans fought with the Catholic Church can be accounted for only by their insufficient understanding of the spiritual nature of the people. -- Adolf Hitler
What I'm asking you to entertain is that there is nothing we need to believe on insufficient evidence in order to have deeply ethical and spiritual lives. -- Sam Harris
In most bull markets there comes a time when the public controls fluctuations and the efforts of the largest operators are insufficient to check the rising tide. -- Charles Dow
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The problem of insufficient security was, until quite recently, a matter of a minority; now it is becoming very quickly a majority matter. That is a major change. -- Zygmunt Bauman
It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology; it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies -- Zaha Hadid
As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their wisdom, their humor, their failings. -- Marty Nemko
The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness. -- Alfred-Maurice de Zayas
Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that's insufficient in your life. -- Greg Plitt
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient. -- Martin Walser
Knowledge is one of our direst needs. But it is insufficient on its own. If knowledge was stripped from true up-bringing, it would increase man's strength, but not his morals. -- Ameen Rihani
But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A conspiracy theorist is a person who tacitly admits that they have insufficient data to prove their points. A conspiracy is a battle cry of a person with insufficient data. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man. -- Owen Feltham
The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen. -- Steven Pinker
Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation! -- Blaise Pascal
The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today's wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale. -- Marty Neumeier
Long experience has taught me not always to believe in the limitations indicated by purely theoretical considerations. These, as we well know, are based on insufficient knowledge of all the relevant factors. -- Guglielmo Marconi
To sum up: politically speaking, it is insufficient to say that power and violence are not the same. Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. -- Hannah Arendt
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature. Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency? -- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Words were insufficient for the elevation of his [Mr Collins'] feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences. -- Jane Austen
Precedents are the disgrace of legislation. They are not wanted to justify right measures, are absolutely insufficient to excuse wrong ones. They can only be useful to heralds, dancing masters, and gentlemen ushers. -- Laurence Sterne
It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all that government will admit, and all that human prudence can devise? -- James Madison
Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence. -- William James
It is in the habits of lawyers that every accusation appears insufficient if they do not exaggerate it even to calumny; it is thus that justice itself loses its sanctity and its respect amongst men. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
Stage fright, like epilepsy, is a divine ailment, a sacred madness... It is a grace that is sufficient in the old Jesuit sense - that is, insufficient by itself but a necessary condition for success. -- Charles Rosen
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day. -- Abraham Lincoln
Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but now trusting in the limitless resources of our risen Lord. -- Alan Redpath
Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
In fact, the wage-price spiral is the functional counterpart of unemployment. The latter occurs when there is insufficient demand; the spiral operates when there is too much and also,unfortunately, when there is just enough. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
There is no death-the thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life, Which is itself an insufficient name, Faint recognition of that unknown life- That Power whose shadow is the Universe. -- Richard Henry Stoddard

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