#merit

True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. ↗

— Edward F. Halifax

#less #like #makes #merit #noise

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#apples #assent #classrooms #confirmed #degree

My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#been #decisions #executive #fall #happiest

We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained. ↗

— Derrick A. Bell

#equality #ethics #injustice #meritocracy #prosperity

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#climate #due #i #i can #i think

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#artist #cannot #deal #expressed #find

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#good #men #more #praise #public

The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#always #begins #everything #fault #finding

It is of no consequence of what parents a man is born, as long as he be a man of merit. ↗

— Horace

#born #consequence #long #man #merit

There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of the origins of the First World War. ↗

— Douglas Hurd

#certainly #consensus #even #first #first world