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Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Method of Nature (1841) · Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method

Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men. – Jane Addams
Courteousness is consideration for others; politeness is the method used to deliver such considerations. – Bryant McGill
Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. the foundation of such a method is love. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
We trained very hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams we would be reorganised. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganising, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress, while producing confusion, inefficiency and demoralisation. – Gaius Petronius
"Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace. – Austin Farrar
A Soulution to Rubik's Cube is not a series of individual good guesses, each surmounting move has twelve to one odds against success. It is a series of perplexed movements or algorithms that form a coherent method of returning back to it's original (correct) state. – Tom Zegan
Art and science have their meeting point in method. – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Because he did not have time to read every new book in his field, the great Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski used a simple and efficient method of deciding which ones were worth his attention: Upon receiving a new book, he immediately checked the index to see if his name was cited, and how often. The more "Malinowski" the more compelling the book. No "Malinowski," and he doubted the subject of the book was anthropology at all. – Neil Postman
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. – George Santayana
Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny. – George Santayana
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. – Laurence J. Peter
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life. – Burton Hills
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad, obnoxious, or unjust laws so effective as their strict execution. – Ulysses S. Grant
I wanted to become the seeker, the aroused and passionate explorer, and it was better going at it knowing nothing at all, always choosing the unmarked bottle, always choosing your own unproven method, armed with nothing but faith and a belief in astonishment. – Pat Conroy, "The Lords of Discipline"
I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. – Detronius Arbiter
If you apply the "Trial and Error" method to most of your work, the gorillas can do it better. The human mind must be more than that. – Woody Haldrugold
In this dispensation, God has clearly included the burial and resurrection of Christ along with His death as a part of 'the gospel' (1 Cor. 151-4)...It is God who has set these terms as the content of our faith in order to be saved. This is the METHOD of salvation in this day of grace. – Joel Finack
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. – Franklin D. Roosevelt
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_. – Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe
Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners. – Josh Billings
Lynching is the method of vulgar men! He who is deprived of compassion is deprived of everything! – Mehmet Murat ildan
Many businessmen fail to understand Python principles--the ultimate absurdity was an offer from America to buy the 'format' of the Python shows, that is, Monty Python without the Pythons--corporate methods do not have the conceptual framework to deal with an anarchist collective, run by intelligent and arrogant comedians who have proved that their method works. – Robert Hewison
Method acting? There are quite a few methods. Mine involves a lot of talent, a glass and some cracked ice. – John Barrymore
Modern man uses ideas and persuasion to achieve his goals; primitive man uses guns and brute force to achieve his goals! Moral and clever people choose the first method; immoral and stupid people choose the second method! – Mehmet Murat ildan
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. – George Bernard Shaw

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