Adjusting Quotes - page 3

If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. (Charles Fort)
But amid all the beliefs of Europe, and of Asia, that of the Indian Brahmins seems to me infinitely the most alluring. And the reason why I love the Brahmin more than the other schools of Asiatic thought is because it seems to me to contain them all. Greater than all European philosophies, it is even capable of adjusting itself to the vast hypotheses of modern science. View quote
Romain Rolland
An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. View quote
Lascelles Abercrombie
If we have integrity about our desire to support men to express feelings, every institution and attitude between the sexes will require questioning and adjusting. View quote
Warren Farrell
As you grow up, you gradually express your own innate intelligence and leave behind the influences stamped on you by others. You select the environments that suit your innate tendencies, rather than adjusting your innate tendencies to the environments you find yourself in. This proves two vital things: that genetic influences are not frozen at conception and that environmental influences are not inexorably cumulative. Heritability does not mean immutability. View quote
Matt Ridley