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Sophist
sophist ::: one who reasons or argues adroitly and speciously rather than soundly.
sophister ::: n. --> A sophist. See Sophist.
A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence. ::: v. t. --> To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument.
sophistical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
sophisticated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Sophisticate ::: a. --> Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
sophisticate ::: v. t. --> To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. ::: a. --> Alt. of Sophisticated
sophisticating ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Sophisticate
sophistication ::: n. --> The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
sophisticator ::: n. --> One who sophisticates.
sophistic ::: a. --> Alt. of Sophistical
sophistry ::: n. --> The art or process of reasoning; logic.
The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
sophist ::: n. --> One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.
Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
Sophistic: (Gr. sophistike) The art of specious reasoning pursued for pay, according to Aristotle, thus distinguished from eristic, whose end is simply victory in disputation. -- G.R.M.
Sophistici Elenchi: (Gr sophistikoi elenchoi) The last of the logical treatises of Aristotle, dealing with fallacies in argumentation. -- G.R.M.
Sophists: (5th Cent B.C.) Wandering teachers who came to Athens from foreign cities, and sought to popularize knowledge. They filled a need felt in Greece at this time for a general dissemination of that scientific knowledge which had previously been more or less privately cultivated in learned societies. Nowhere was this need more widespread than in Athens where a political career necessitated an acquaintance with the intellectual attainments of the race. The Sophists came to Athens to assist young men in achieving political success. Before long, this brought with it the subordination of purely theoretical learning to its practical usefulness, and the Sophists, far from teaching what is most likely to be true, instructed the youth in what is most likely to bear political fruit. Thus eloquent public appeal and the art of rhetoric soon took the place of pure science and philosophy. In this very desire, however, to persuade and refute, the problem presented itself as to whether among the various conflicting opinions which the Sophists had taught their pupils to defend and to oppose, there was anything of permanent value which could claim the assent of all men everywhere. This quest of the universal in knowledge and in conduct forms the basis of the Socratic Quest. -- M.F.
sophister ::: n. --> A sophist. See Sophist.
A student who is advanced beyond the first year of his residence. ::: v. t. --> To maintain by sophistry, or by a fallacious argument.
sophistical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a sophist; embodying sophistry; fallaciously subtile; not sound.
sophisticated ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Sophisticate ::: a. --> Adulterated; not pure; not genuine.
sophisticate ::: v. t. --> To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. ::: a. --> Alt. of Sophisticated
sophisticating ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Sophisticate
sophistication ::: n. --> The act of sophisticating; adulteration; as, the sophistication of drugs.
sophisticator ::: n. --> One who sophisticates.
sophistic ::: a. --> Alt. of Sophistical
sophistry ::: n. --> The art or process of reasoning; logic.
The practice of a sophist; fallacious reasoning; reasoning sound in appearance only.
sophist ::: n. --> One of a class of men who taught eloquence, philosophy, and politics in ancient Greece; especially, one of those who, by their fallacious but plausible reasoning, puzzled inquirers after truth, weakened the faith of the people, and drew upon themselves general hatred and contempt.
Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.
sophist ::: one who reasons or argues adroitly and speciously rather than soundly.
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1 Sri Aurobindo
1 Socrates
1 Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger
1 Leonardo Da Vinci
1 Jordan Peterson
1 C J Lewis
1 A B Purani
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10 Nassim Nicholas Taleb
8 Anonymous
7 Leonardo da Vinci
7 F Scott Fitzgerald
5 Terry Pratchett
5 Jim Rohn
4 Jim Henson
4 Bryant McGill
3 Wendell Berry
3 John Medina
3 Jeff Foxworthy
3 Gail Honeyman
3 Antonin Scalia
2 Willis Harman
2 Walter Isaacson
2 Vera Farmiga
2 R F Kuang
2 Plato
2 Peter Godfrey Smith
2 Paul Auster
2 Patti Smith
2 Michel Faber
2 Matt Ridley
2 Matthew Arnold
2 Mahatma Gandhi
2 Jonathan Haidt
2 John Green
2 Jeffrey Eugenides
2 J D Salinger
2 Hugh Hefner
2 Henry David Thoreau
2 Haruki Murakami
2 George Santayana
2 George Eliot
2 George Carlin
2 Frederick Lenz
2 Ernest Hemingway
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2 Chelsea Cain
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2 Arundhati Roy
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1:Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci, #KEYS
2:No matter how sophisticated or powerful our thinking machines become, there still will be two kinds of people : those who let the machines do their thinking, for them, and those who tell the machines what to think about. ~ C J Lewis, #KEYS
3:Paul Brunton in his book A Search in Secret Egypt repeatedly speaks of Atlantis. I always thought that belief in Atlantis was only an imagination of the Theosophists. Is there any truth in the belief?Atlantis is not an imagination. Plato heard of this submerged continent from Egyptian sources and geologists are also agreed that such a submersion was one of the great facts of earth history. 22 June 1936 ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters On Poetry And Art , #KEYS
4:I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort.From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconceptions. Because the most skillful among them excel in their specialty, they look upon themselves as the wisest of men. In my eyes, this presumption completely tarnished their knowledge. As a result, putting myself in the place of the oracle and asking myself what I would prefer to be - what I was or what they were, to know what they have learned or to know that I know nothing - I replied to myself and to the god: I wish to remain who I am.We do not know - neither the sophists, nor the orators, nor the artists, nor I- what the True, the Good, and the Beautiful are. But there is this difference between us: although these people know nothing, they all believe they know something; whereas, I, if I know nothing, at least have no doubts about it. As a result, all this superiority in wisdom which the oracle has attributed to me reduces itself to the single point that I am strongly convinced that I am ignorant of what I do not know. ~ Socrates, #KEYS
5:Disciple: If the Asuras represent the dark side of God on the vital plane - does this dark side exist on every plane? If so, are there beings on the mental plane which correspond to the dark side? Sri Aurobindo: The Asura is really the dark side of God on the mental plane. Mind is the very field of the Asura. His characteristic is egoistic strength, which refuses the Higher Law. The Asura has got Self-control, Tapas, intelligence, only, all that is for his ego. On the vital plane the corresponding forces we call the Rakshashas which represent violent passions and impulses. There are other beings on the vital plane which we call pramatta and piśacha and these; manifest, more or less, on the physico-vital plane. Distiple: What is the corresponding being on the higher plane? Sri Aurobindo: On the higher plane there are no Asuras - there the Truth prevails. There are "Asuras" there in the Vedic sense,- "beings with divine powers". The mental Asura is only a deviation of that power. The work of the Asura has all the characteristics of mind in it. It is mind refusing to submit to the Higher Law; it is the mind in revolt. It works on the basis of ego and ignorance. Disciple: What are the forces that correspond to the dark side of God on the physical plane? Sri Aurobindo: They are what may be called the "elemental beings", or rather, obscure elemental forces - they are more "forces" than "beings". It is these that the Theosophists call the "Elementals". They are not individualised beings like the Asura and the Rakshasas, they are ignorant forces working oh the subtle physical plane. Disciple: What is the word for them in Sanskrit;? Sri Aurobindo: What are called bhūtas seem most nearly to correspond to them. Disciple: The term "Elemental" means that these work through the elements. Sri Aurobindo: There are two kinds of "elementals": one mischievous and the other innocent. What the Europeans call the gnomes come under this category. ~ A B Purani, EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO 15-06-1926, #KEYS
6:Our culture, the laws of our culture, are predicated on the idea that people are conscious. People have experience; people make decisions, and can be held responsible for them. There's a free will element to it. You can debate all that philosophically, and fine, but the point is that that is how we act, and that is the idea that our legal system is predicated on. There's something deep about it, because you're subject to the law, but the law is also limited by you, which is to say that in a well-functioning, properly-grounded democratic system, you have intrinsic value. That's the source of your rights. Even if you're a murderer, we have to say the law can only go so far because there's something about you that's divine.Well, what does that mean? Partly it means that there's something about you that's conscious and capable of communicating, like you're a whole world unto yourself. You have that to contribute to everyone else, and that's valuable. You can learn new things, transform the structure of society, and invent a new way of dealing with the world. You're capable of all that. It's an intrinsic part of you, and that's associated with the idea that there's something about the logos that is necessary for the absolute chaos of the reality beyond experience to manifest itself as reality. That's an amazing idea because it gives consciousness a constitutive role in the cosmos. You can debate that, but you can't just bloody well brush it off. First of all, we are the most complicated things there are, that we know of, by a massive amount. We're so complicated that it's unbelievable. So there's a lot of cosmos out there, but there's a lot of cosmos in here, too, and which one is greater is by no means obvious, unless you use something trivial, like relative size, which really isn't a very sophisticated approach.Whatever it is that is you has this capacity to experience reality and to transform it, which is a very strange thing. You can conceptualize the future in your imagination, and then you can work and make that manifest-participate in the process of creation. That's one way of thinking about it. That's why I think Genesis 1 relates the idea that human beings are made in the image of the divine-men and women, which is interesting, because feminists are always criticizing Christianity as being inexorably patriarchal. Of course, they criticize everything like that, so it's hardly a stroke of bloody brilliance. But I think it's an absolute miracle that right at the beginning of the document it says straightforwardly, with no hesitation whatsoever, that the divine spark which we're associating with the word, that brings forth Being, is manifest in men and women equally. That's a very cool thing. You got to think, like I said, do you actually take that seriously? Well, what you got to ask is what happens if you don't take it seriously, right? Read Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. That's the best investigation into that tactic that's ever been produced. ~ Jordan Peterson, Biblical Series 1, #KEYS
7:64 Arts 1. Geet vidya: art of singing. 2. Vadya vidya: art of playing on musical instruments. 3. Nritya vidya: art of dancing. 4. Natya vidya: art of theatricals. 5. Alekhya vidya: art of painting. 6. Viseshakacchedya vidya: art of painting the face and body with color 7. Tandulakusumabalivikara: art of preparing offerings from rice and flowers. 8. Pushpastarana: art of making a covering of flowers for a bed. 9. Dasanavasanangaraga: art of applying preparations for cleansing the teeth, cloths and painting the body. 10. Manibhumikakarma: art of making the groundwork of jewels. 11. Aayyaracana: art of covering the bed. 12. Udakavadya: art of playing on music in water. 13. Udakaghata: art of splashing with water. 14. Citrayoga: art of practically applying an admixture of colors. 15. Malyagrathanavikalpa: art of designing a preparation of wreaths. 16. Sekharapidayojana: art of practically setting the coronet on the head. 17. Nepathyayoga: art of practically dressing in the tiring room. 18. Karnapatrabhanga: art of decorating the tragus of the ear. 19. Sugandhayukti: art of practical application of aromatics. 20. Bhushanayojana: art of applying or setting ornaments. 21. Aindrajala: art of juggling. 22. Kaucumara: a kind of art. 23. Hastalaghava: art of sleight of hand. 24. Citrasakapupabhakshyavikarakriya: art of preparing varieties of delicious food. 25. Panakarasaragasavayojana: art of practically preparing palatable drinks and tinging draughts with red color. 26. Sucivayakarma: art of needleworks and weaving. 27. Sutrakrida: art of playing with thread. 28. Vinadamurakavadya: art of playing on lute and small drum. 29. Prahelika: art of making and solving riddles. 30. Durvacakayoga: art of practicing language difficult to be answered by others. 31. Pustakavacana: art of reciting books. 32. Natikakhyayikadarsana: art of enacting short plays and anecdotes. 33. Kavyasamasyapurana: art of solving enigmatic verses. 34. Pattikavetrabanavikalpa: art of designing preparation of shield, cane and arrows. 35. Tarkukarma: art of spinning by spindle. 36. Takshana: art of carpentry. 37. Vastuvidya: art of engineering. 38. Raupyaratnapariksha: art of testing silver and jewels. 39. Dhatuvada: art of metallurgy. 40. Maniraga jnana: art of tinging jewels. 41. Akara jnana: art of mineralogy. 42. Vrikshayurvedayoga: art of practicing medicine or medical treatment, by herbs. 43. Meshakukkutalavakayuddhavidhi: art of knowing the mode of fighting of lambs, cocks and birds. 44. Sukasarikapralapana: art of maintaining or knowing conversation between male and female cockatoos. 45. Utsadana: art of healing or cleaning a person with perfumes. 46. Kesamarjanakausala: art of combing hair. 47. Aksharamushtikakathana: art of talking with fingers. 48. Dharanamatrika: art of the use of amulets. 49. Desabhashajnana: art of knowing provincial dialects. 50. Nirmitijnana: art of knowing prediction by heavenly voice. 51. Yantramatrika: art of mechanics. 52. Mlecchitakutarkavikalpa: art of fabricating barbarous or foreign sophistry. 53. Samvacya: art of conversation. 54. Manasi kavyakriya: art of composing verse 55. Kriyavikalpa: art of designing a literary work or a medical remedy. 56. Chalitakayoga: art of practicing as a builder of shrines called after him. 57. Abhidhanakoshacchandojnana: art of the use of lexicography and meters. 58. Vastragopana: art of concealment of cloths. 59. Dyutavisesha: art of knowing specific gambling. 60. Akarshakrida: art of playing with dice or magnet. 61. Balakakridanaka: art of using children's toys. 62. Vainayiki vidya: art of enforcing discipline. 63. Vaijayiki vidya: art of gaining victory. 64. Vaitaliki vidya: art of awakening master with music at dawn. ~ Nik Douglas and Penny Slinger, Sexual Secrets , #KEYS
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1:tongue. Sophisticated ~ Robyn Carr, #NFDB
2:sophistication ~ William Shakespeare, #NFDB
3:Love supreme defies all sophistry. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
4:people appreciate sophistication ~ Timothy J Keller, #NFDB
5:I aspired to be extremely sophisticated. ~ Linda Hunt, #NFDB
6:need for a younger, less sophisticated ~ Tony Hillerman, #NFDB
7:Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Ken Segall, #NFDB
8:War is a sophisticated form of terrorism. ~ Shikha Kaul, #NFDB
9:simplicity is the best sophistication ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
10:Sophistry is the fallacy of argument. ~ Henry Ward Beecher, #NFDB
11:In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. ~ Eartha Kitt, #NFDB
12:Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Brent Schlender, #NFDB
13:Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
14:Systems are going to get a lot more sophisticated. ~ Bill Joy, #NFDB
15:Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
16:Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Clare Boothe Luce, #NFDB
17:Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
18:it felt adult, sophisticated, slightly alcoholic. ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
19:Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
20:Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves ~ Bruce Lee, #NFDB
21:Roman military expansion drove Roman sophistication. ~ Mary Beard, #NFDB
22:Sophisticated ignorance, write my curses in cursive. ~ Kanye West, #NFDB
23:Redneck is: the glorious absence of sophistication ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
24:Sophistication isn't what you wear and who you know. ~ Taylor Swift, #NFDB
25:Young people are more intelligent and sophisticated. ~ Dianne Wiest, #NFDB
26:Don't mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness. ~ Lorrie Moore, #NFDB
27:The Chanel woman is slender, sophisticated and chic. ~ Gaspard Ulliel, #NFDB
28:Truth is strong enough to overcome all human sophistries. ~ Aeschines, #NFDB
29:Western "freedom" is a sophisticated form of control. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
30:He is a spectacularly unsophisticated conversationalist. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
31:sleek Berlin Hauptbahnhof, a sophisticated marvel of ~ Martha Hall Kelly, #NFDB
32:The life of the city cat is short but so sophisticated. ~ Jennifer Stone, #NFDB
33:Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation. ~ Jacques Barzun, #NFDB
34:And now she spurned me, mocked me, accused me of sophistry. So ~ Jeff Lindsay, #NFDB
35:Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society. ~ Dominick Dunne, #NFDB
36:Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
37:Sophistication knows the score, but is powerless to change it. ~ Mason Cooley, #NFDB
38:The KGB surveillance could be surprisingly unsophisticated. ~ David E Hoffman, #NFDB
39:We aren’t here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up. ~ R F Kuang, #NFDB
40:We’re not here to be sophisticated. We’re here to fuck people up. ~ R F Kuang, #NFDB
41:I tend to dress a little more sophisticated than most women do. ~ Nicole Richie, #NFDB
42:be sophisticated you need to accept that you are not so. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
43:The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ~ Jim Henson, #NFDB
44:The witnessing of death in war brings a sophistication of its own; ~ John le Carr, #NFDB
45:Hip is the sophistication of the wise primitive in a giant jungle. ~ Norman Mailer, #NFDB
46:The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children. ~ Jim Henson, #NFDB
47:A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist ~ Sophocles, #NFDB
48:in both cases the desire for knowledge had ended bliss. Sophisticates ~ Will Durant, #NFDB
49:rumours can go viral without sophisticated information technology. ~ Niall Ferguson, #NFDB
50:Around the top of their body are two dozen sophisticated eyes— ~ Peter Godfrey Smith, #NFDB
51:Cole Porter had a worldwide reputation as a sophisticate and hedonist ~ Ethel Merman, #NFDB
52:Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for. ~ Kingsley Amis, #NFDB
53:To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated, but not be able to say it. ~ George Carlin, #NFDB
54:Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects. ~ Hans Hofmann, #NFDB
55:I don't think there is any coach more sophisticated than me any more... ~ Sam Allardyce, #NFDB
56:My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication. ~ Uma Thurman, #NFDB
57:Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
58:The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
59:Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces”? ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
60:The human species is terrifically talented and sophisticatedly stupid ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru, #NFDB
61:If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it. ~ Robert Heller, #NFDB
62:Cheese has always been a food that both sophisticated and simple humans love. ~ M F K Fisher, #NFDB
63:If wit is the most sophisticated form of humor, pranks are the most juvenile. ~ Maureen Dowd, #NFDB
64:My cats are really sassy and sophisticated, but most importantly, they are picky. ~ Jason Wu, #NFDB
65:Socrates argued that only God can be a sophist, only God can be truly wise. ~ Bettany Hughes, #NFDB
66:Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing. ~ K naan, #NFDB
67:To be inclusive you must accommodate different levels of sophistication. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
68:She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated! ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
69:she laughed with thrilling scorn. ‘Sophisticated—God, I’m sophisticated! ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
70:But actually I make films that I think are extremely sophisticated and cinematic. ~ Mike Leigh, #NFDB
71:I like peasants-they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously. ~ Baron de Montesquieu, #NFDB
72:What makes a man a 'sophist' is not his faculty, but his moral purpose. (1355b 17) ~ Aristotle, #NFDB
73:Eleanor Gordon was the most sophisticated in their crowd. She read The New Yorker. ~ Judy Blume, #NFDB
74:Freedom is the most sophisticated form of control. The best lies use the truth. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
75:I think the notion of worldbuilding is a failure of literary sophistication. ~ Michael Moorcock, #NFDB
76:You might be a redneck if your sophisticated show-biz cousin is a rodeo clown. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
77:Self-consciousness is the curse of the city and all that sophistication implies. ~ Annie Dillard, #NFDB
78:Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated. ~ Sophia Loren, #NFDB
79:All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation. ~ Immanuel Kant, #NFDB
80:Death is the most sophisticated form of beauty, and the most difficult to accept. ~ Simon Van Booy, #NFDB
81:Fiction is the most joyous, beautiful, sophisticated, wonderful thing in the world. ~ Arundhati Roy, #NFDB
82:So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part. ~ Chris Murphy, #NFDB
83:The more sophisticated an organism, the higher the percentage of junk DNA it contains. ~ Nessa Carey, #NFDB
84:A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity. ~ Benjamin Disraeli, #NFDB
85:Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that. ~ Carla Bley, #NFDB
86:I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. ~ Alan Furst, #NFDB
87:Music is always going to be only as sophisticated as the culture that consumes it. ~ Jimmy Chamberlin, #NFDB
88:She always felt a little uneasy around women who were more sophisticated than she was. ~ Chelsea Cain, #NFDB
89:Spending plenty of time on something can be the most sophisticated form of revenge. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
90:There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. ~ Don Herold, #NFDB
91:The sophisticated investor’s first question is: “How fast do I get my money back? ~ Robert T Kiyosaki, #NFDB
92:Even in the most sophisticated person, it is the primitive eye that watches the film. ~ Jack Nicholson, #NFDB
93:I don't think that I'm that sophisticated. Maybe I'm not aware of it, I don't know. ~ Marion Cotillard, #NFDB
94:In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories. ~ Haruki Murakami, #NFDB
95:The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's. ~ G Gordon Liddy, #NFDB
96:Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career. ~ Martin Gilbert, #NFDB
97:it is a curious fact that the more sophisticated we become the simpler grows our speech. ~ George Eliot, #NFDB
98:Sophistication and lifestyle is understanding the difference between trinkets and treasures. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
99:There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV. ~ Vera Farmiga, #NFDB
100:America is the world's top war-master; the most sophisticated killer-culture in history. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
101:Anyway, when sophisticated technology fails, primitive technology steps in to do the job. ~ Michel Faber, #NFDB
102:Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames). ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
103:Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer, #NFDB
104:Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
105:Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
106:Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated. ~ Gideon Raff, #NFDB
107:The current social organization is a sophisticated lie and invisible prison without bars. ~ Bryant McGill, #NFDB
108:There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe. ~ Elbert Hubbard, #NFDB
109:I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute for decadence. ~ Christopher Hampton, #NFDB
110:I want men to be more chic - and Japanese style has that kind of sophisticated elegance. ~ Roberto Cavalli, #NFDB
111:Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication. ~ Bill Budge, #NFDB
112:The most sophisticated things in the world are precisely those within the reach of everyone. ~ Paulo Coelho, #NFDB
113:We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance. ~ Warren Weaver, #NFDB
114:when do proficiency and sophistication have much of anything to do with good rock ’n’ roll? ~ Peter Bebergal, #NFDB
115:Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. ~ Antonin Scalia, #NFDB
116:Death is a sophisticated afternoon in Santa Fe, with nobody saying what they are thinking. ~ Charles Bukowski, #NFDB
117:I don't have very sophisticated taste in music. I listen to a lot of folk music. I like reggae. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
118:I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts. ~ Cary Grant, #NFDB
119:The dangers of sophistry and scholasticism are present in the possibility of philosophy itself. ~ Susan Neiman, #NFDB
120:I remain very much connected to my childhood... I have never been too jaded or too sophisticated. ~ Hugh Hefner, #NFDB
121:It is a wicked sophistry to justify the worldliness of the Church by the cross of Christ. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer, #NFDB
122:People are very sophisticated consumers of information, and they're pulling all different things. ~ Jon Stewart, #NFDB
123:People try new things all the time. By now, the people who succeed have to be very sophisticated. ~ Sergey Brin, #NFDB
124:Reese Witherspoon. She's sophisticated enough that you just like her. You like her and she's smart. ~ Don Bluth, #NFDB
125:with a Latin saying that sophistication is born out of hunger (artificia docuit fames). ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
126:As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor. ~ Brendan Fraser, #NFDB
127:I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical. ~ Robert A Heinlein, #NFDB
128:No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children. ~ Julia Cameron, #NFDB
129:What I say is stupid. Who takes a comedian seriously? I'm doing sophisticated knock-knock jokes. ~ Carlos Mencia, #NFDB
130:As man's faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life ~ Haile Selassie, #NFDB
131:I don't usually get to play sophisticated women. I usually do the old scrubs, chavs or slappers. ~ Sheridan Smith, #NFDB
132:I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think. ~ G Eazy, #NFDB
133:Most people are just trying to get through the day. Sophisticated people learn how to get from the day. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
134:Reality has always proved to be much more sophisticated and subtle than any preconceived philosophy. ~ Michio Kaku, #NFDB
135:I’m sophisticated, charming, suave and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilised. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
136:Scientists may have sophisticated laboratories,
But never forget 'eureka' was inspired in a bathtub. ~ Toba Beta,#NFDB
137:When ideas are manipulated for personal ends, for class or group interests, the name for this is sophistry. ~ Plato, #NFDB
138:I'm sophisticated, charming, suave, and debonair, Professor. But I have never claimed to be civilized. ~ Derek Landy, #NFDB
139:I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine. ~ Madeleine L Engle, #NFDB
140:Steadiness of faith, was, in the long run, as illuminating and essential as sophistication of thought. ~ Jon Meacham, #NFDB
141:The two stormtroopers might not have been tactically sophisticated, but they had been good shots. ~ Alan Dean Foster, #NFDB
142:Skepticism has come to be synonymous with sophistication, and glibness is mistaken for intelligence. ~ Howard Schultz, #NFDB
143:Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world. ~ Vladimir Nabokov, #NFDB
144:cas·u·ist·ry n. the use of clever but unsound reasoning, esp. in relation to moral questions; sophistry. ~ Erin McKean, #NFDB
145:most behaviorally sophisticated animals outside the bilaterians are the—terrifying—box jellyfish ~ Peter Godfrey Smith, #NFDB
146:Wine snobbery, of course, is part showmanship, part sophistication, part knowledge, and part bluff ~ Leonard Bernstein, #NFDB
147:I love shooting French films because I don't have to stick with being sophisticated or stuck-up. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas, #NFDB
148:Every good sit-in requires one guy in a nice suit. It lends an air of sophistication to the proceedings. ~ Tommy Wallach, #NFDB
149:He who is fortunately enlightened [the Sufi]
Knows that sophistry is from the devil and love from Adam. ~ Idries Shah,#NFDB
150:A more politically sophisticated psychology now emphasizes individual differences in adherence to group-based ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
151:I had reached a level of sophistication at which I could know I was fooling myself and still fool myself. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
152:Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't. ~ Billy Higgins, #NFDB
153:When technology allows, firms with scarcity power may use highly sophisticated methods to target customers. ~ Tim Harford, #NFDB
154:Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books. ~ Mark Lawrence, #NFDB
155:Handsome, thin, sophisticated men often fall madly in love with larger women, we just never see it on TV. ~ Camryn Manheim, #NFDB
156:How soon Mathis had been proved right and how soon his own little sophistries had been exploded in his face! ~ Ian Fleming, #NFDB
157:Rule of thumb: if you think something is clever and sophisticated beware-it is probably self-indulgence. ~ Donald A Norman, #NFDB
158:Burrich told me that the ax was not a sophisticated weapon, but was a very satisfactory one if used correctly. ~ Robin Hobb, #NFDB
159:The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check". ~ Richard A Falk, #NFDB
160:There is no more off-leash reliable, calm, sophisticated, go-with-you-anywhere dog than a trained sheepdog. ~ Donald McCaig, #NFDB
161:With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need. ~ Dennis Prager, #NFDB
162:...as human beings we are a lot more sophisticated about each other than we are about the abstract world. ~ Malcolm Gladwell, #NFDB
163:I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches. ~ Fred Armisen, #NFDB
164:I don't understand why so many people who are sophisticated in science go on believing in God. I wish I did. ~ Richard Dawkins, #NFDB
165:My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication. ~ Renee Zellweger, #NFDB
166:The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means. ~ Brian Crozier, #NFDB
167:Bilderberger Meeting: The world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. ~ David Rockefeller, #NFDB
168:I think that we're always drawn - particularly sophisticated people - are always drawn to the idea of simplicity. ~ Adam Gopnik, #NFDB
169:Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars. ~ John Maeda, #NFDB
170:When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it. ~ Vera Farmiga, #NFDB
171:The brain doesn't care about change. As the world's most sophisticated survival organ, the brain cares about loss. ~ John Medina, #NFDB
172:What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. ~ Jane Goodall, #NFDB
173:Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. ~ John Adams, #NFDB
174:Basically, I have a gift as an actress, and I want to present the sophisticated side of me as an actress and a person. ~ Bai Ling, #NFDB
175:I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience. ~ Billy Joel, #NFDB
176:I’ve been everywhere and seen everything and done everything…Sophisticated — God, I’m sophisticated! (Daisy) ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
177:The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are. ~ Stephen Ambrose, #NFDB
178:Every page is a bent version of reality—too unsophisticated to be art but too self-conscious to be mere reportage. ~ David Shields, #NFDB
179:I've never met—have you?—a truly sophisticated man. World-weary and discreet—of course. But never sophisticated. ~ Timothy Findley, #NFDB
180:Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods. ~ Bette Lord, #NFDB
181:My personal style is kind of sophisticated edgy, I guess. I wear a lot of black and it's what I feel comfortable in. ~ Demi Lovato, #NFDB
182:Sophisticated people invest their money in stock portfolios. Rednecks invest their money in commemorative plates. ~ Jeff Foxworthy, #NFDB
183:Television is so cool. Television is proving that we can be sophisticated and that people will watch, if it's good. ~ Jose Padilha, #NFDB
184:Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do. ~ Robert Fisk, #NFDB
185:George H. W. Bush said simply, Offutt “has the most sophisticated command-and-control outside Washington.” Offutt ~ Garrett M Graff, #NFDB
186:Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment. ~ Michel Faber, #NFDB
187:All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. ~ Thomas Pynchon, #NFDB
188:Anyone who thinks they're too grown up or too sophisticated to eat caramel corn, is not invited to my house for dinner ~ Ruth Reichl, #NFDB
189:I find that most channeled discourses possess the spiritual and philosophical sophistication of a Dick-and-Jane book. ~ D Scott Rogo, #NFDB
190:If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
191:There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. ~ David Shuster, #NFDB
192:I really believe in less is more. It's more sophisticated to look look and fresh and make a statement in one place. ~ Erin Heatherton, #NFDB
193:It's one of those places that are supposed to be very sophisticated and all, and the phonies are coming in the window. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
194:To say that dying without reaching one’s aim is to die a dog’s death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When ~ Yamamoto Tsunetomo, #NFDB
195:We are at risk of trying to make food too sophisticated as we move along, changing ingredients to follow what’s in vogue. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
196:The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually. ~ Amy Grant, #NFDB
197:This son of mine..is entirely sophisticated and quite charming- but delicate- we're all delicate; here, you know. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
198:An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. ~ Andrew Lang, #NFDB
199:People don't really go to museums in Rio. I shouldn't say it's not sophisticated, but, you know, they go to the beach. ~ Francisco Costa, #NFDB
200:The Israeli army had the most sophisticated weaponry and they used it against residential towers, schools and hospitals. ~ Khaled Mashal, #NFDB
201:But as with all skills, the most sophisticated techniques tend to have their foundation in the simplest of principles. As ~ Josh Waitzkin, #NFDB
202:Enlightenment means that you've become a sophisticated perceiver, without letting anyone know that you're sophisticated. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
203:I don't know what's happened to me. I've got a bit more sophisticated in my old age. I like a bit of jasmine tea. I love it. ~ Danny Dyer, #NFDB
204:It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. ~ Percy Williams Bridgman, #NFDB
205:Our affluence does not make us selfish; it simply enables us to afford more sophisticated expressions of selfishness. ~ Paul David Tripp, #NFDB
206:John Lott has done the most extensive, thorough and sophisticated study we have on the effects of loosening gun control laws. ~ Gary Kleck, #NFDB
207:Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world. ~ John Palfrey, #NFDB
208:The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged. ~ Bill Gates, #NFDB
209:The most sophisticated people I've ever known had just one thing in common: they were all in touch with their inner children. ~ Jim Henson, #NFDB
210:Would there be any truth in saying that psychology was created by the sophists to sow distrust between man and his world? ~ Rudolf Arnheim, #NFDB
211:Sophistication" is another word for that inventive mix of tolerance, resilience, and resourcefulness city people develop. ~ Edward Hoagland, #NFDB
212:No matter how sophisticated our choices, how good we are at dominating the odds, randomness will have the last word. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
213:A man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
214:By the seventh century, Christianity probably was far stronger and more sophisticated in North Africa and Asia than in Europe. ~ Rodney Stark, #NFDB
215:I feel like someone in a terribly sophisticated play. The funny part is, I'm not sophisticated. I'm not anything. I'm just me. ~ J D Salinger, #NFDB
216:Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview. ~ David Roochnik, #NFDB
217:I feel that audiences are very sophisticated, and part of my challenge is to keep them engaged because they are so complex. ~ Chiwetel Ejiofor, #NFDB
218:Just as serious modern literature does not have plain old bad guys, sophisticated movies may also avoid such stock figures. ~ Roy F Baumeister, #NFDB
219:Too touristy a move for such a sophisticate as moi? Of course. But there is a reason certain activities become touristy, no? My ~ Harlan Coben, #NFDB
220:I would like to write one of those sophisticated stories in which even though nothing much happens there’s lots to write about. ~ Arundhati Roy, #NFDB
221:Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day. ~ June Jordan, #NFDB
222:The most sophisticated people I know--inside they're all children. We never really loose a certain sense we had when we were kids. ~ Jim Henson, #NFDB
223:Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary. ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
224:Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. ~ Thomas Sowell, #NFDB
225:our ability to analyze data has grown far more sophisticated than our thinking about what we ought to do with the results. You ~ Charles Wheelan, #NFDB
226:Whoever does not philosophize for the sake of philosophy, but rather uses philosophy as a means, is a sophist. ~ Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, #NFDB
227:G-Dragon's music is like sushi. It's sophisticated and has different flavors. His music also changes depending on how much he cooks it. ~ Seungri, #NFDB
228:It seemed rather incongruous that in a society of super sophisticated communication, we often suffer from a shortage of listeners. ~ Erma Bombeck, #NFDB
229:No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye. ~ Mahatma Gandhi, #NFDB
230:The leaning of sophists toward the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity. The highroads are dreary but they lead to the town. ~ James Joyce, #NFDB
231:Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary... ~ Ernest Hemingway, #NFDB
232:I really believe that readers are smart and sophisticated enough to realize that the author is not the narrator of his novels. ~ Bret Easton Ellis, #NFDB
233:Our sophistication continuously puts us ahead of ourselves, creating things we are less and less capable of understanding. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
234:Right now, get down on your hands and knees and pray to God or Allah or Buddha or whoever if you are an unsophisticated investor. ~ James Altucher, #NFDB
235:With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain. ~ Claude Levi Strauss, #NFDB
236:I may wear the skin of an urbane sophisticate, but in this manuscript I invite you to strip it off and laugh at my stupidity. ~ Ry nosuke Akutagawa, #NFDB
237:We’d have to get tipsy.” Pulling her hand out of his, she held up a stern palm. “Not drunk, just tipsy. It’s much more sophisticated. ~ Anne Tenino, #NFDB
238:Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least. ~ Harriet Martineau, #NFDB
239:I love Jennifer Aniston's style. She is streamlined and never overdone. And Demi Moore always looks classic, gorgeous and sophisticated. ~ Hoda Kotb, #NFDB
240:Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme. ~ Lance Armstrong, #NFDB
241:Starbucks was delivering more value than just coffee; they were delivering a sense of sophistication and enthusiasm about life. They ~ Donald Miller, #NFDB
242:To invoke alien law when it agrees with one's own thinking, and ignore it otherwise, is not reasoned decisionmaking, but sophistry. ~ Antonin Scalia, #NFDB
243:Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith, #NFDB
244:I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either. ~ Mick Hucknall, #NFDB
245:The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium. ~ Rand Beers, #NFDB
246:And truly Philosophy is but sophisticated poetry. Whence do those ancient writers derive all their authority but from the poets? ~ Michel de Montaigne, #NFDB
247:Dogma? Faith? These are the right and left pillars of every soul-crushing theology. Theosophists have no dogmas, exact no blind faith. ~ H P Blavatsky, #NFDB
248:My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something. ~ Carrie Fisher, #NFDB
249:No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being. ~ Ansel Adams, #NFDB
250:The headline of the first promotional brochure McKenna created for the machine asserted, “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Brent Schlender, #NFDB
251:All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. ~ Douglas Adams, #NFDB
252:Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
253:No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings. ~ Andrew Saul, #NFDB
254:Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have? ~ Matthew Tobin Anderson, #NFDB
255:My films have sort of amateur elements, a naive quality, yet they have some sophisticated quality, sometimes the rhythm is kinda elegant. ~ Jim Jarmusch, #NFDB
256:Perhaps my philosophy is not so sophisticated. It goes: Come inside. I love you. A Whelk's love will grow as big as it's allowed. ~ Catherynne M Valente, #NFDB
257:The old stories have just as much philosophical import, sophistication, straight up magic--probably more--than anything created since. ~ Dr. Martin Shaw, #NFDB
258:The propaganda techniques are so sophisticated, governments have convinced people to attack anyone who points out the uncomfortable truth. ~ Adam Kokesh, #NFDB
259:The reordering of the luminous fibers is a very sophisticated art. It's not something anyone should ever undertake without supervision. ~ Frederick Lenz, #NFDB
260:doing the perfect kettlebell swing alone is superior to 99 percent of the sophisticated strength and conditioning programs out there. ~ Pavel Tsatsouline, #NFDB
261:I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. ~ Nathan Seiberg, #NFDB
262:I know as a critic I'm required to have a well-armored heart. I must be a cynical wise guy to show my great sophistication. No pushover, me. ~ Roger Ebert, #NFDB
263:It's shocking how sophisticated little kids can be, when it comes to behaving in a professional manner, and that's a credit to their parents. ~ Sean Astin, #NFDB
264:We’re apes. We think we’re all sophisticated with our toaster ovens and designer footwear, but we’re just a bunch of finely ornamented apes. ~ Mark Manson, #NFDB
265:You know they ain't bad people. They're just uneducated, unsophisticated, untraveled, immoral, and uncivilized. Plus stupid." -The Missing ~ Tim Gautreaux, #NFDB
266:Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right. ~ Anne Lamott, #NFDB
267:You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied. ~ Giordano Bruno, #NFDB
268:I will laugh about this one day, I told myself. I will laugh about it with people so clever and sophisticated I can't imagine them properly now. ~ Jo Walton, #NFDB
269:Our sexual ideas are also borrowed not from the sophisticate cultures who created the Kama Sutra, but from kindred brutalists, the Romans. ~ Ian F Svenonius, #NFDB
270:The true face of smoking is disease, death and horror - not the glamour and sophistication the pushers in the tobacco industry try to portray. ~ David Byrne, #NFDB
271:But too much reading had taken its toll. William found that he now thought of prayer as a sophisticated way of pleading with thunderstorms. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
272:In the beginning we must simplify the subject, thus unavoidably falsifying it, and later we must sophisticate away the falsely simple beginning. ~ Maimonides, #NFDB
273:The poorly sophisticated, since many of us are, as presumed to be, lacking in good arguments, we are then prone to being well-versed in insults. ~ Criss Jami, #NFDB
274:We're entering a bionic era where we actually are beginning to see technology that's sophisticated enough to emulate key physiological functions. ~ Hugh Herr, #NFDB
275:Because of the interconnectedness of all minds, affirming a positive vision may be about the most sophisticated action any one of us can take. ~ Willis Harman, #NFDB
276:People are sophisticated viewers, as evidenced by the risks that are taken in cable television, and I think network has to do the same thing. ~ Todd Lieberman, #NFDB
277:The desire to work with Burrows-Charles was really to change NBC's identity, to say, "We want to be in the sophisticated-adult-comedy business." ~ Amy Poehler, #NFDB
278:The loss of a reliance on others often helpfully forces a more sophisticated rumination that enables the opening of previously unknown avenues. ~ Pawan Mishra, #NFDB
279:A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality. ~ Clifton Fadiman, #NFDB
280:At the end of the road of the pursuit of technological sophistication appears to lie a playhouse in which humankind regresses to nursery school. ~ Jaron Lanier, #NFDB
281:But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. ~ Edmund Burke, #NFDB
282:I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way. ~ Mick Jagger, #NFDB
283:innovation and sophistication spark from initial situations of necessity, in ways that go far beyond the satisfaction of such necessity ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
284:Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the “complexity” of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. —Thomas Sowell ~ David Allen, #NFDB
285:Whenever I come back to London, which is home, I get that cosy, comfortable feeling of being home, as well as the sophistication of this city. ~ Tom Hiddleston, #NFDB
286:But biblical and other ancient Near Eastern sources do not share Enlightenment theology of sophisticated intellectuals (ancient and modern). ~ Richard A Horsley, #NFDB
287:Canada, as you know, is a major important nation boasting a sophisticated, cosmopolitan culture that was tragically destroyed last week by beavers. ~ Dave Barry, #NFDB
288:I remember once when I told Lindsay Anderson at a party that acting was just a sophisticated way of playing cowboys and Indians he almost had a fit. ~ John Hurt, #NFDB
289:It was here in Mayfair, that adjectives such as gracious elegant sophisticated and sublime trip off the tongue like coins into a parking meter. ~ Tyne O Connell, #NFDB
290:The lessons learned as we try to build ever more sophisticated nanomachines will almost certainly inform our understanding of the origins of life. ~ Paul McEuen, #NFDB
291:What we have is a more sophisticated form of imperialism, which is economic. But lurking in the background, always ready to go, is an armed force. ~ Howard Zinn, #NFDB
292:I ended up doing amazing things with my life; I'm well-read, educated and sophisticated - and I'm not the stereotype everyone makes me out to be. ~ Taryn Manning, #NFDB
293:It is a remarkable phenomenon that children can learn to speak without ever being consciously aware of the sophisticated grammar they are using. ~ Timothy Gowers, #NFDB
294:The ability to ascribe thoughts to others, thoughts that might differ from our own, is a sophisticated cognitive skill, known as “theory of mind. ~ Sy Montgomery, #NFDB
295:With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face. ~ Iain Glen, #NFDB
296:Human rationality depends on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brains work so well that our reasoning can work at all. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
297:I wish all critics, no matter their color, were more sophisticated when it comes to the moral questions a film like 'St. Anna' is trying to raise. ~ James McBride, #NFDB
298:Publicity is in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future... According to publicity, to be sophisticated is to live beyond conflict. ~ John Berger, #NFDB
299:According to a charming law of nature which is evident even in the most sophisticated societies, we live in complete ignorance of whatever we love. ~ Marcel Proust, #NFDB
300:If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to live with men. ~ Socrates, #NFDB
301:We're all human beings, but some of us are more sophisticated at covering our flaws. We're just smart enough to lie to ourselves that everything is OK. ~ Mehmet Oz, #NFDB
302:Today, proactive urban police departments plan for and execute sophisticated surveillance and monitor such demonstrations in order to mitigate problems. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
303:I had a chronic beer-face condition; no matter what I was drinking, I ended up looking like I'd just eaten a live tarantula. It was very sophisticated. ~ Anna Jarzab, #NFDB
304:Old Castro remembered bits of hideous legend that paled the speculations of theosophists and made man and the world seem recent and transient indeed. ~ H P Lovecraft, #NFDB
305:The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before. ~ David Cameron, #NFDB
306:All societies, ancient or modern, primitive or sophisticated, have guided themselves by values and goals rooted in the experience of 'deep intuition'. ~ Willis Harman, #NFDB
307:Helpful skills and techniques aren’t very helpful if they’re done in the box. They just provide people with more-sophisticated ways to blame. ~ The Arbinger Institute, #NFDB
308:However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously. ~ Robert Fripp, #NFDB
309:One of the early signs of sophistication is not giving way to all inclinations but rather sending your emotions to school so they will learn how to behave. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
310:tegeus-Cromis, sometime soldier and sophisticate, who now dwelt quite alone in a tower by the sea and imagined himself a better poet than swordsman. ~ M John Harrison, #NFDB
311:The American middle-class appetite for illegal drugs provided the capital to build some of the most sophisticated and effective companies on earth. ~ Jonathan Franzen, #NFDB
312:the protocols of such gatherings, the sophisticated hypocrisies of supposed art lovers coming to an art show in order to ignore the artworks on display, ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
313:The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. ~ David Antin, #NFDB
314:Ah,” said Magnus. “Nerd love. It is a beautiful thing, while also being an object of mockery and hilarity for those of us who are more sophisticated. ~ Cassandra Clare, #NFDB
315:Some people need a picture. Any great religion has to be inclusive. And to be inclusive you have to accommodate different levels of sophistication. ~ Jeffrey Eugenides, #NFDB
316:The best Reformed theology isn't just about careful arguments for theologically sophisticated conclusions. It is about how to live the Christian life. ~ Oliver D Crisp, #NFDB
317:Then Lamia breath’d death breath; the sophist’s eye,
Like a sharp spear, went through her utterly, 300
Keen, cruel, perceant, stinging: she, as well ~ John Keats,#NFDB
318:There was no civility, there was no sophistication, there was nothing but raw resentment and anger on the part of the Hillary [Clinton] campaign staff. ~ Rush Limbaugh, #NFDB
319:With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more. ~ Paul Lutus, #NFDB
320:But does psychological sophistication override a sense that some actions are just plain bad? How much of human behaviour, in the end, can one understand? ~ Helen Garner, #NFDB
321:He was so genuine and unsophisticated that no introduction would serve to introduce him, more than if you introduced a woodchuck to your neighbor. ~ Henry David Thoreau, #NFDB
322:If you think of the typical Herbalife distributor and their level of sophistication, to this day I still don't understand the marketing plan - true story. ~ Bill Ackman, #NFDB
323:The Giza Plateau was an observatory machine which were engineered using a level of sophistication that is found in Theology rather than in Technology. ~ Ibrahim Ibrahim, #NFDB
324:The juggle of sophistry consists, for the most part, in using a word in one sense in all the premises, and in another sense in the conclusion. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, #NFDB
325:The technology used by these five powers to intercept communications is staggeringly sophisticated. Our small vocabulary for describing the act of listening ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
326:We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition. ~ Helen Hayes, #NFDB
327:You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophisticated-cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is real with us. ~ S E Hinton, #NFDB
328:Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. ~ Antonin Scalia, #NFDB
329:In Sartre’s style of argument, German metaphysics met French sophistry in a kind of European Coal and Steel Community producing nothing but rhetorical gas. ~ Clive James, #NFDB
330:Wow, you read pulp horror too?” she said, pitch gliding off the sarcasm scale. “Finally someone sophisticated. I’m sick of this town of Milton hooligans! ~ Edgar Cantero, #NFDB
331:Babies learn through a series of increasingly self-corrected ideas. They use very sophisticated hypothesis testing strategies to find out about their world. ~ John Medina, #NFDB
332:Big government inevitably drives an upward distribution of wealth to those whose wealth, confidence and sophistication enable them to manipulate government. ~ George Will, #NFDB
333:Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication-- Steve Jobs turned this into the slogan behind an early Mac advertising campaign. Which doesn't make it less true. ~ Steve Jobs, #NFDB
334:In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
335:In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
336:Somehow, amid all the sophistication and diversions of this world, we forgot the basics: take care of business at home first, and never betray your blood. ~ Nelson DeMille, #NFDB
337:There's more technology in your car than there is in your computer. It's got thousands of parts in it. It's extremely sophisticated, all that robotics. ~ Jennifer Granholm, #NFDB
338:Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for. ~ Amos Tversky, #NFDB
339:a world remade in the image of Walt Disney, and driven by an increasingly sophisticated communications technology, is the total breakdown of civilization.20 ~ Morris Berman, #NFDB
340:Breakfast Club, and shared the same misimpression that it was a sign of sophistication to talk about how much you loved Eames chairs and the art of Mondrian. ~ David Brooks, #NFDB
341:In setting goals and executing a strategy, Wanda is sophisticated. We have good systems and departments. If targets are not reached, a yellow light goes off. ~ Wang Jianlin, #NFDB
342:My style icon has always been my mom. I feel like she was always sophisticated and effortless and looked really well put together without trying too hard. ~ Bella Heathcote, #NFDB
343:The more sophisticated we become - as we pierce reality and see the void beyond - the more our sense of wonder is destroyed, along with our reasons for being. ~ Eric Maisel, #NFDB
344:The sophisticated concern about art sinks before a spontaneous love of reality, and I thank the photograph for being so transparent a vehicle for things. ~ George Santayana, #NFDB
345:A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds. ~ David Chalmers, #NFDB
346:Gretchen Lowell was beautiful in a very grown-up way, in a sophisticated, confident way. It was more than beauty; it was the power of beauty. She radiated it. ~ Chelsea Cain, #NFDB
347:Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all. ~ Jonathan Haidt, #NFDB
348:I like to dress pretty basic during the day, but with a sophisticated bohemian spin, and sometimes a little rock chic. At night I like to go glamorous. ~ Alessandra Ambrosio, #NFDB
349:In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond. ~ Guillermo del Toro, #NFDB
350:On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable. ~ H L Mencken, #NFDB
351:Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence. ~ Patrick Lencioni, #NFDB
352:As you can imagine, the wandering Sophists created bitter wrangling in Athens by pointing out that there were no absolute norms for what was right or wrong. ~ Jostein Gaarder, #NFDB
353:God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world. ~ Bede Griffiths, #NFDB
354:In other cases, when the medium becomes entranced, the demonstration of a communicator's separate intelligence may become stronger and the sophistication less. ~ Oliver Lodge, #NFDB
355:Our model citizen is a sophisticate who, before puberty, understands how to produce a baby, but who at the age of thirty will not know how to produce a potato ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
356:She’s pretty in an unsophisticated way, like a Midwestern farm girl, and you can see the wide-open prairies behind her, the blue-skied meadows in her eyes. ~ Jonathan Tropper, #NFDB
357:Strategy-making is an immensely complex process involving the most sophisticated, subtle, and at times subconscious of human cognitive and social processes. ~ Henry Mintzberg, #NFDB
358:Men do communicate, often very directly, but women sometimes cannot accept how simple what we have to say is. We seldom play games--we aren't that sophisticated. ~ Chris Abani, #NFDB
359:Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop. ~ Kate Bush, #NFDB
360:The only propaganda which will ever tend to weaken itself as the world becomes more sophisticated and intelligent, is propaganda that is untrue or unsocial. ~ Edward L Bernays, #NFDB
361:There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast. ~ Ang Lee, #NFDB
362:For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use. ~ Barbara W Tuchman, #NFDB
363:No matter how advanced our economy might be, no matter how sophisticated our equipment becomes, for the foreseeable future we will still depend on fossil fuels. ~ George W Bush, #NFDB
364:What language for such a refined and sophisticated northern lass! And a beautiful one. Even more beautiful when you’re swearing away in such a ladylike manner! ~ Heather Graham, #NFDB
365:Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige... ~ James Thurber, #NFDB
366:Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them. ~ Caroline Myss, #NFDB
367:The ice tinkles prettily: There's no more inviting sound to her, it's sophistication, like a British accent or that call-and-response of high-heeled shoes on tile. ~ Rumaan Alam, #NFDB
368:William Congreve is the only sophisticated playwright England has produced; and like Shaw, Sheridan, and Wilde, his nearest rivals, he was brought up in Ireland. ~ Kenneth Tynan, #NFDB
369:There must be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible. ~ Harriet Ann Jacobs, #NFDB
370:Within the last hundred years the teachings of the Buddha have confirmed the views of theosophists, fascists, environmentalists, and quantum physicists alike. ~ Stephen Batchelor, #NFDB
371:Without a flexible, immediately available, highly regulated stress response, we would die. Remember, the brain is the world’s most sophisticated survival organ. All ~ John Medina, #NFDB
372:Publishing a sophisticated men's magazine seemed to me the best possible way of fulfilling a dream I'd been nurturing ever since I was a teenager: to get laid a lot. ~ Hugh Hefner, #NFDB
373:I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture. ~ Ricky Gervais, #NFDB
374:I think teenagers bring a lot of intellectual sophistication. They're wrestling with big questions. It's just that, a lot of times they do that separately from adults. ~ John Green, #NFDB
375:Man looks very coward and extremely primitive with an ostentatious big sword and he looks very brave and tremendously sophisticated with a humble olive branch! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan, #NFDB
376:The sophist sneers: Fool, take Thy pleasure, right or wrong! The pious wail: Forsake A world these sophists throng! Be neither saint nor sophist-led, but be a man. ~ Matthew Arnold, #NFDB
377:What if I am, in some way, only a sophisticated fire that has acquired an ability to regulate its rate of combustion and to hoard its fuel in order to see and walk? ~ Loren Eiseley, #NFDB
378:What's interesting, is that I've found that the more accomplished a director is, the more secure they are in giving direction that sounds incredibly unsophisticated. ~ Aaron Sorkin, #NFDB
379:Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans. ~ Hooman Majd, #NFDB
380:The East is a montage. It is old and it is young, very green in summer, very white in winter, gregarious, withdrawn and at once both sophisticated and provincial. ~ Phyllis McGinley, #NFDB
381:The Paris attack was highly sophisticated, well-planned, very clever, took months in the making, very much like 9/11. And there is a 9/11-style attack coming to America. ~ Rand Paul, #NFDB
382:In the metropolitan haunts of the highly sophisticated, the cocktail is no longer an instrument of friendship but a competitive fashion statement, or one-upmanship. ~ Barbara Holland, #NFDB
383:In this swarm of cigarettes and dark sophistication they appeared here and there like figures from an allegory; or long-dead celebrants from some forgotten garden party ~ Donna Tartt, #NFDB
384:Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains. ~ Paul Harvey, #NFDB
385:The Catholic philosopher Josef Pieper summed it up when he said that “the abuse of political power is fundamentally connected with the sophistic abuse of the word. ~ Charles J Chaput, #NFDB
386:...The cry of revolt against such a god [a god which just affirms the world as it is] is nearer the truth than is the sophistry with which men attempt to justify him.... ~ Karl Barth, #NFDB
387:When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market. ~ Richard Branson, #NFDB
388:Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
389:I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated. ~ Barack Obama, #NFDB
390:Oh, well, that's not bad, I suppose. I mean, I'd prefer devastatingly sophisticated - but almost endearing is more than I could have hoped for under the circumstances. ~ Jane Costello, #NFDB
391:repeating the commonplaces about atheism and materialism and sophistry, which are the stock-accusations against all philosophers when there is nothing else to be said of them. ~ Plato, #NFDB
392:Usually the intention of the artistic effect is too sophisticated for most people to understand, sort of like a joke that they don't get so they don't think it's funny. ~ Billy Corgan, #NFDB
393:I responded to this development with the kind of sophisticated language for which I am famous. "Crap crap crap crap crap crap crap stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid crap. ~ John Green, #NFDB
394:Miss von Osterloh had looked through it once during an idle fifteen minutes and pronunce it "quite sophisticated," which veredict was her euphemism for "inhumanly boring. ~ Thomas Mann, #NFDB
395:Through constant creation of dissatisfaction, the consumer society is in fact a highly sophisticated mechanism for the production and distribution of unhappiness. That ~ Jonathan Sacks, #NFDB
396:As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects. ~ William Cowper, #NFDB
397:Even the most urbanely sophisticated, scrupulously empathic and excruciatingly polite civilisation, it had been suggested, was just a hegswarm with a sense of proportion. ~ Iain M Banks, #NFDB
398:Fear of rejection isn’t a sophisticated feeling. You know it thwacks you in the gut. But no matter how hard you try to look for it, you will probably never see it coming. ~ Ayisha Malik, #NFDB
399:I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way. ~ Suzanne Farrell, #NFDB
400:We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do. ~ Maya Angelou, #NFDB
401:Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature. ~ Lionel Trilling, #NFDB
402:God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything. ~ D H Lawrence, #NFDB
403:I don't consider myself a person of fashion because it's too sophisticated. My thing is I look at style like swagger. I like things that pull me, that I gravitate to. ~ Michael K Williams, #NFDB
404:I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap. ~ Jennifer Lopez, #NFDB
405:I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western. ~ Brice Marden, #NFDB
406:She was unique in his sophisticated world, a far cry from all the women he’d known, completely natural, fresh and artless, irrepressibly eager for sex. His constant wet dream. ~ C C Gibbs, #NFDB
407:and most modern and all surrealist art is nothing but attempted witchcraft, borrowing its forms from the primitive witchdoctor and its ideas from the modern theosophist.” He ~ Fritz Leiber, #NFDB
408:Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are
generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues. ~ Steve Krug,#NFDB
409:I think that physicists are the Peter Pans of the human race. They never grow up and they keep their curiosity. Once you are sophisticated, you know too much-far too much. ~ Howard Gardner, #NFDB
410:It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated. ~ Jodee Blanco, #NFDB
411:There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped. ~ Ward Cunningham, #NFDB
412:Using sophisticated brain-mapping techniques they discovered that the reduction in gray matter that typically comes with aging had actually been offset by the meditation. ~ Andy Puddicombe, #NFDB
413:We were trained as writers with the idea that literature is something that can change reality, that it's not just a very sophisticated entertainment, but a way to act. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa, #NFDB
414:He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
415:I know the history of the record business so well because I followed Billie Holiday into the record studios. It was so primitive compared to the sophisticated business today. ~ Tony Bennett, #NFDB
416:I spent many years working for voting rights, but we still see sophisticated efforts, led by white officials, to disenfranchise black voters in local and national elections. ~ Edward Brooke, #NFDB
417:A society where you’re not allowed to blow your own trumpet is so much more nuanced, sophisticated and interesting than the grim world of literalism that’s being ushered in. ~ David Mitchell, #NFDB
418:A sort of melancholy, and regret, seizes us every time we meet a sophisticated, adulterated idiot. Oh the nice fools of yestertime! Genuine, natural. Like homemade bread. ~ Leonardo Sciascia, #NFDB
419:Diem regarded the Americans as ‘great big children – well-intentioned, powerful, with a lot of technical know-how, but not very sophisticated in dealing with him or his race’. ~ Max Hastings, #NFDB
420:The argument for the free market is a complicated and sophisticated one and depends on demonstration of secondary effects. I have confidence market efficiency will win out. ~ Milton Friedman, #NFDB
421:This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks - to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls. ~ Michael Swanwick, #NFDB
422:Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. ~ Walker Evans, #NFDB
423:Everything we would ever need to become rich and powerful and sophisticated is within our reach. The major reason that so few take advantage of all that we have is simply, neglect. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
424:The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service. ~ Jim Rohn, #NFDB
425:I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art. ~ Gavin Turk, #NFDB
426:In the absence of The King the Warrior becomes a mercenary, the Magician becomes a sophist (able to argue any position and believing in none), and the Lover becomes an addict. ~ Robert L Moore, #NFDB
427:I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
428:Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors. ~ Thomas B Macaulay, #NFDB
429:People at that level of sophistication apparently didn’t have mere friends they hung with. Everyone served a particular function, the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
430:The coffee shop is a great New York institution, but it has terrible coffee. And the more traditional coffee shops are trying to catch up with more sophisticated coffee drinkers. ~ Adam Gopnik, #NFDB
431:Fear of rejection isn’t a sophisticated feeling. You know it thwacks you in the gut. But no matter how hard you try to look for it, you will probably never see it coming. WEDDING ~ Ayisha Malik, #NFDB
432:For the true measure of agriculture is not the sophistication of its equipment the size of its income or even the statistics of its productivity but the good health of the land. ~ Wendell Berry, #NFDB
433:Her fingers were small in my hand but her grip was firm. I tried to place her age. Late twenties, maybe thirty. She looked young, but her dress and mannerisms were sophisticated. ~ Barry Eisler, #NFDB
434:simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
435:Simulation is the situation created by any system of signs when it becomes sophisticated enough, autonomous enough, to abolish its own referent and to replace it with itself. ~ Jean Baudrillard, #NFDB
436:Sophisticated and complicated and able to color-coordinate a room like you wouldn’t believe. I craved him with a bone-deep lust I’d once reserved exclusively for Godiva truffles. ~ Molly Harper, #NFDB
437:We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 million to show states how they might meet this more sophisticated approach. ~ Margaret Spellings, #NFDB
438:Advanced cultures are usually sophisticated enough, or have been sophisticated enough at some point in their pasts, to realize that foxes shouldn't be relied on to guard henhouses. ~ Jane Jacobs, #NFDB
439:A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated. ~ Aaron Sorkin, #NFDB
440:Galina called the camp director "a loyal citizen of the People's Republic of Bullshit" for his insistence that Swan Lake contained Marius Petipa's most sophisticated pas de deux. ~ Anthony Marra, #NFDB
441:Makridakis and Hibon reached the sad conclusion that "statistically sophisticated or complex methods do not necessarily provide more accurate forecasts than simpler ones. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
442:Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery. ~ Leonardo da Vinci, #NFDB
443:Another ten points from Gryffindor,” said Snape. “I would expect nothing more sophisticated from you, Ronald Weasley, the boy so solid he cannot Apparate half an inch across a room. ~ J K Rowling, #NFDB
444:He was ashamed of baiting the man, realizing that the absurdity of the story rested in the immaturity of the attitude combined with the sophisticated method of its narration. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald, #NFDB
445:It was as if the two women represented the poles of his desires, one of them forthright, spontaneous and simple in her tastes; the other engimatic, sophisticated, wedded to luxury. ~ Amitav Ghosh, #NFDB
446:Men like Raymond, pedestrial dullards, would always be distracted by women who looked like her, having neither the wit nor the sophistication to see beyond mammaries and peroxide. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
447:Men like Raymond, pedestrian dullards, would always be distracted by women who looked like her, having neither the wit nor the sophistication to see beyond mammaries and peroxide. ~ Gail Honeyman, #NFDB
448:I use Google+, and I find the quality of the comments are very sophisticated because there is more trust inside of Google+ than there is inside of Twitter and Facebook, for example. ~ Eric Schmidt, #NFDB
449:Today it is even more important to dominate the . . . highly sophisticated weapon systems, perhaps even more important than being a good pilot; to make the best use of this system. ~ Adolf Galland, #NFDB
450:Language is just as rule-based in its newest slang forms, and just as sophisticated as it ever was in ancient Rome. But the rules, now as then, are written from below, not from above. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
451:the higher returns of the largest endowments are not due primarily to greater risk taking but to a more sophisticated investment strategy that consistently produces better results. ~ Thomas Piketty, #NFDB
452:There are too many people who imagine that there is something sophisticated about always believing the best of those who hate your country, and the worst of those who defend it. ~ Margaret Thatcher, #NFDB
453:The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology,” quoted Rincewind. “Ah,” said Eric, “Good.” “No,” said Rincewind patiently. “It means time measurement. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
454:My parents were very well read. They were both New Englanders, not highly educated, but they had a sophisticated... they were both very humanistic, and they were sophisticated readers. ~ Patti Smith, #NFDB
455:No matter how developed you are in any other area of your life, no matter what you say you believe, no matter how sophisticated or enlightened you think you are, how you eat tells all. ~ Geneen Roth, #NFDB
456:No sophisticated study of public opinion is needed to establish the fact that in the United States, North or South, a white life is considered to be of more value than a Negro life. ~ Calvin Trillin, #NFDB
457:Sophistication called for a variety of talents and attitudes, but the minimum requirement was being in New York. Not all New Yorkers achieved it, but nobody elsewhere had a prayer. ~ Barbara Holland, #NFDB
458:The extreme sophistication of modern technology - wonderful though its benefits are - is, ironically, an impediment to engaging young people with basics: with learning how things work. ~ Martin Rees, #NFDB
459:Two of Epicurus’s early influences, Democritus and Pyrrho, had actually journeyed all the way to what is now India, where they had encountered Buddhism in the schools of the gymnosophists ~ Epicurus, #NFDB
460:We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next. ~ Paul Auster, #NFDB
461:What is prudence in the conduct of every private family,” said Adam Smith’s strong common sense in reply to the sophists of his time, “can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom. ~ Henry Hazlitt, #NFDB
462:When I started writing seriously in high school, English was the language I had at my disposal - my Spanish was domestic, colloquial, and not particularly literary or sophisticated. ~ Daniel Alarcon, #NFDB
463:Abstract thinking can lead us no further than to intellectual sophistries, which are invariably used as shields and subterfuges and are calculated to prevent the realization of the whole. ~ Carl Jung, #NFDB
464:Under an unsophisticated culture, inartificial tastes, and an unpretending outside, lay a secret power and fire that might have informed the brain and kindled the veins of a hero... ~ Charlotte Bront, #NFDB
465: Useful Figure The litotes (“didn’t appreciate”) understates a point ironically. It has fallen out of favor in our hyperbolic times, but makes for a more sophisticated kind of speech. ~ Jay Heinrichs, #NFDB
466:Beneath the sophistication of Buddhist psychology lies the simplicity of compassion. We can touch into this compassion whenever the mind is quiet, whenever we allow the heart to open. ~ Jack Kornfield, #NFDB
467:It can certainly happen that characters in more sophisticated stories can "take over" as they develop and change the author's original ideas. Well, it certainly happens to me at times. ~ Margaret Mahy, #NFDB
468:Latin could make no headway with the sophisticates of the eastern Mediterranean, who spoke Greek and Aramaic, but it was quickly embraced by the illiterate peoples of Gaul and Spain. ~ Nicholas Ostler, #NFDB
469:Realism is a very sophisticated form of literature, a very grown-up one. And that may be its weakness. But fantasy seems to be eternal and omnipresent and always attractive to kids. ~ Ursula K Le Guin, #NFDB
470:We’re discovering that many of our feelings are just a kind of sophisticated shorthand for all sorts of complex calculations that are constantly occurring in the back of your brain. Your ~ Mel Robbins, #NFDB
471:What we're going to see is the emergence of the lone wolf rather than the planning of large numbers of people to carry out large attacks...Explosives are getting more sophisticated. ~ Dianne Feinstein, #NFDB
472:As early humans became increasingly sophisticated in their social abilities, avoiding predation almost certainly involved increasing use of off-line preventative and communicative measures. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
473:It seems to be a general rule that sciences begin their development with the unusual. They have to develop considerable sophistication before they interest themselves in the commonplace. ~ Ralph Linton, #NFDB
474:Some people read the Bible as if its passages were Rorschach inkblots. They see what is in their head. In more sophisticated language, they project onto the Bible what they want to see. ~ Scot McKnight, #NFDB
475:Studios and networks who ignore either shift - whether the increasing sophistication of storytelling, or the constantly shifting sands of technological advancement - will be left behind. ~ Kevin Spacey, #NFDB
476:The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations. ~ Georg Simmel, #NFDB
477:The most effective system of Internet control is not the one that has the most sophisticated and draconian system of censorship, but the one that has no need for censorship whatsoever. ~ Evgeny Morozov, #NFDB
478:Even in her casual white shirt and cotton pants, she was clearly an independent woman in charge of her destiny. She was so… He paused, searching for words. So sophisticated, so self-assured. ~ Jan Moran, #NFDB
479:In the fields I know best, among the life sciences, it is required that the most expert and sophisticated minds be capable of changing course - often with a great lurch - every few years. ~ Lewis Thomas, #NFDB
480:As an animal lover and as a sometime-meat-eater, I've read so much about the emotional sophistication of pigs and cows and sheep that I do think twice when I do still eat them on occasion. ~ Bryan Fuller, #NFDB
481:She [Hillary Clinton] used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. ~ James Comey, #NFDB
482:The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh. ~ Terry Pratchett, #NFDB
483:You’ve never understood homophobia. Gay guys tend to be better groomed and better dressed and more sophisticated than the rest of us—if they were straight, they’d be stealing all the women. ~ Paul Cleave, #NFDB
484:Aesthetic life is not something sophisticated - that's a humanistic lie. Aesthetic life is as integral to being human as building sandcastles on the beach and giving your children names. ~ Calvin Seerveld, #NFDB
485:For, has not the world come to an awfully sophisticated pass, when, after a certain degree of acquaintance with it, we cannot even put ourselves to death in whole-hearted simplicity? ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne, #NFDB
486:You don't have to patronize your audience, and you can mix art and commerce in a profound way. You can simultaneously play to the sophisticated, 60-year-old theatergoers and to 4-year-olds. ~ Julie Taymor, #NFDB
487:Magic speaks to the child in all of us. No matter how sophisticated we become, there's still a part of us who wants to believe in an alternative reality, where we can defy the laws of nature. ~ Criss Angel, #NFDB
488:simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb, #NFDB
489:vulnerability and hurt. A lot of things happen below the surface, don’t you think? A jab, a deflection, a hit, then pain—all hidden beneath exquisite manners and an aura of sophistication. ~ Katherine Reay, #NFDB
490:He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans thought them good and were following the best they knew. ~ C S Lewis, #NFDB
491:I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior. ~ Noah Baumbach, #NFDB
492:The success of human beings depends crucially, but precariously, on numbers and connections. A few hundred people cannot sustain a sophisticated technology: trade is a vital part of the story. ~ Matt Ridley, #NFDB
493:Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs are all highly intelligent in very different ways. ~ Alison Gopnik, #NFDB
494:Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ~ Walter Isaacson, #NFDB
495:I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from the ridiculous to the obscene-or, as they say in New York, sophisticated. ~ Tom Lehrer, #NFDB
496:The impulse to explain is the Achilles’ heel of all genre work, and the most sophisticated artists within every genre know better than to expose their worlds to the sharp knife of intellection. ~ Tom Bissell, #NFDB
497:Like most people, I've grown a lot more sophisticated in my style choices. I know myself and what suits me better now than I did when I was much younger and feel more comfortable in my own skin. ~ Nina Garcia, #NFDB
498:That afternoon I came to understand that one of the deepest purposes of intellectual sophistication is to provide distance between us and our most disturbing personal truths and gnawing fears. ~ Richard Russo, #NFDB
499:Thus all sorts of sophisticated order-systems become possible, which keep successively modifying themselves and hence also the computational processes that are likewise under their control. ~ John von Neumann, #NFDB
500:For less sophisticated people, he relies on brainwashing,” Guriev said. “For more sophisticated but less honest people, he needs to bribe them. For honest, sophisticated people, he uses repression. ~ Anonymous, #NFDB
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5 Maps of Meaning
3 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
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2 Liber ABA
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