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Real morality is based on a single criterion: right action, appropriate action, in the present moment and present situation.
— Brad Warner
The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.
— Albert Low
Even for the physicist the description in plain language will be a criterion of the degree of understanding that has been reached.
— Werner Heisenberg
A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
— George Washington
There is no criterion by which to recognize what is a color, except that it is one of our colors.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
But surely the simplicity of an explanation is no necessary criterion of its truth.17
— Frans De Waal
The criterion for free choice can never be an absolute one, but neither is it entirely relative.
— Herbert Marcuse
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
— Ludwig Von Mises
Selection criterion: does it spark joy?
— Marie Kondo
Utility is the true criterion of beauty.
— Max Von Stephanitz
Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then trust it-and yourself.
— Rosemary Daniell
Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty.
— Mahlon Hoagland
Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.
— Mal Peet
A person's willingness to conform to arbitrary parameters is not a good criterion for selecting talent or allocating rewards.
— Bruce Tulgan
If you have a family mission statement that clarifies what your purpose is, then you use that as the criterion by which you make the decisions.
— Stephen Covey
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
— John Quincy Adams
Just remember one criterion: whatever you do should not be in the service of destruction, it should be in the service of creativity.
— Rajneesh
Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.
— Robert Caro
In the future, human rights will be increasingly a universal criterion for designing ethical systems.
— Mahnaz Afkhami
The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.
— Bert Hellinger
The fundamental criterion for judging any procedure is the justice of its likely results.
— John Rawls
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?
— Emily Dickinson
Humanistic ethics is based on the principle that only humans themselves can determine the criterion for virtue and not an authority transcending us.
— Bertrand Russell
Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere.
— Leo Tolstoy
The theory that holds "good blood" or "bad blood" as a moral-intellectual criterion , can lead to nothing but torrents of blood in practice.
— Ayn Rand
Profitability is the sovereign criterion of the enterprise.
— Peter Drucker
In my opinion, the very fact that Mark doesn't know this diagnostic criterion suggests that he's a lot closer to actual retardation than I am.
— Jodi Picoult
This is known as the Pareto criterion and forms the basis for all judgements on social improvements in Neoclassical economics today.
— Ha-Joon Chang
You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
— Tom Stoppard
Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.
— Ramana Maharshi
There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.
— Hosea Ballou
Not aptitude ... attitude is the criterion for success.
— Denis Waitley
The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
Complexity is not an aesthetic criterion. It is a quality associated only with division and organization of labor.
— Christopher Caudwell
The primary criterion for determining our walk with God is the knowledge of His love.
— Sunday Adelaja
The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.
— Emma Goldman
I divide all literary works into two categories: Those I like and those I don't like. No other criterion exists for me.
— Anton Chekhov
Action with and for those who suffer is the concrete expression of the compassionate life and the final criterion of being a Christian.
— Henri J.M. Nouwen
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
— Edmund Burke
The condition of women affords in all countries the best criterion by which to judge the character of men.
— Frances Wright
The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism.
— Albert Einstein
Contradiction itself, far from always being a criterion of error, is sometimes a sign of truth.
— Simone Weil
The criterion for judging whether a movie is successful or not is time.
— Peter Bogdanovich
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
— George Bancroft
Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth.
— Friedrich Nietzsche