Best Incomplete Quotes

I am particularly concerned about the survival of the EU because it is an incomplete union.

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

I should deem a man-of-war incomplete without a body of Marines…imbued with that esprit that has so long characterized the Old Corps.

We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw conclusions and make judgments based on uncertain and incomplete information, and we conclude, when we are done analyzing the patterns, that out picture is clear and accurate. But is it?

Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side – in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That’s intuitive, but it’s incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.

I knew this girl named Tropicana,
She’s always juicin’.
Producing cash for a sexual task.
She loves men that trick like Halloween and treat…
You ain’t paid? Then your grade is incomplete.

In real life, every field of science is incomplete, and most of them – whatever the record of accomplishment during the last 200 years – are still in their very earliest stages.

You have a certain set of facts and you are looking for situations where you have an edge, whether the edge is psychological or statistical.

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that’s lacking.

What lingers from the parent’s individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

In Lords of Rainbow I start out by taking away color from the world, and in the process show color’s vital place in our lives. At least I hope that by the end of the book it’s a portion of what the reader comes away with – a sense of how much color perception enriches our lives and how its lack can make our sensory experience incomplete.

Fear is incomplete knowledge.

True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally complete the incomplete.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

I learned that I could not do enough work; it’s always incomplete. When you ask a question, the answer will raise four more questions, and those four will become eight.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.

To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.

I like newspaper stories that are incomplete, that give me room to imagine the rest. It’s no good to me reading about something that’s all neatly solved and wrapped up. That’s why so many of my stories revolve around human psychology, around why someone commits a certain crime, or series of crimes. I don’t profess to know the answers but I like to explore the possibilities.

One goal of ethical inquiry might be to uncover strategies available for use when values conflict or when rules are incomplete.

To will a new form is unacceptable, because will builds distortion. Desire, too, is incomplete and arbitrary. These strategies, however intimate they might become, must especially be removed to clear the way for something else.

Schopenhauer’s thought that Will is insatiable, that once satisfied in one form it must be expressed in new desires, is inherited both by Mann and by Aschenbach (it’s in Mahler, as well). So life is inevitably incomplete.

While in theory randomness is an intrinsic property, in practice, randomness is incomplete information.

Each of us A cell of awareness Imperfect and incomplete Genetic blends With uncertain ends On a fortune hunt that’s far too fleet

Without poetry our science will appear incomplete, and most of what now passes with us for religion and philosophy will be replaced by poetry.

Humanity is regarded as unfinished, incomplete, imperfect. We have the possibility of completing ourselves, perfecting ourselves, and all that is necessary for this lies in us.

To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective.

I’m curious by individuals that embrace half a story so they can justify how incomplete they feel about their own self worth.

Hosting a game show is so bizarre and uniquely its own thing. Anytime I’m hosting something, I try to bring as much of myself to it as I can, but it’s always going to be incomplete.

People don’t have an ongoing relation unless it’s a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and therefore one party is probably to blame – more likely than not, both are. Sociality itself seems to become like a matter of sin, and inherently wrong.

For the institutions of the European Union are at present incomplete. A European Senate is badly needed to complete them. By creating an upper chamber in the European parliament, a new bridge could be built between national political classes, which retain democratic legitimacy, and the decision-making process in Brussels. Such a Senate should be recruited by indirect election from exisiting national parliaments.

…Only the big food manufacturers have the wherewithal to secure FDA-approved health claims for their products and then trumpet them to the world. Generally, it is the products of modern food science that make the boldest health claims, and these are often founded on incomplete and often bad science.

For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one’s literary education very incomplete.

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.