#weakness

Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#doing #establishment #into #modes #move

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#concealing #cunning #defects #discovering #other

You can be stern and forthright, and that's my management style, but when you lose it totally, that's a sign of weakness. ↗

— Jon Huntsman, Jr.

#lose #management #sign #stern #style

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#imaginations #men #often #ruled #said

This amateurism however, can sometimes be helpful in forging a style; you have to work around your weaknesses. ↗

— Bill Bruford

#forging #helpful #however #sometimes #style

A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause - and tolerates slaughterhouses and vivisection laboratories, and circuses and the fur industry (infliction of pain upon creatures that can never be for or against any cause), does not deserve to live. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#life #strength-and-courage #war-crimes #weakness #courage

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#breaks #kinds #two #weakness #which

You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead. ↗

— Whitey Ford

#count #down #get #going #his

Only a kind person is able to judge another justly and to make allowances for his weaknesses. A kind eye, while recognizing defects, sees beyond them. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#allowances #another #beyond #defects #eye

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness. ↗

— Thomas Francis Meagher

#benefits #deepest #dependence #even #legislation