Famous quotes with Imperfect knowledge

• International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

  Rebecca West
• In completing one discovery we never fail to get an imperfect knowledge of others of which we could have no idea before, so that we cannot solve one doubt without creating several new ones.

  Joseph Priestly
• Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
• In return for this great gift that I could not repay in a thousand lifetimes, at least I can promise that, although I have frequently advanced wrong, or even stupid, arguments (in the light of later discoveries), at least I have never been lazy, and have never betrayed your trust by cutting corners or relying on superficial secondary sources. I have always based these essays upon original works in their original languages (with only two exceptions, when Fracastoro's elegant Latin verse and Beringer's foppish Latin pseudocomplexities eluded my imperfect knowledge of this previously universal scientific tongue).

  Stephen Jay Gould

Antonyms for the word "anti-bellicistic" can include pro-war, militaristic, aggressive, warlike, and bellicose. These words reflect a positive attitude towards the use of military ...