Thomas Kuhn Quotes

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I never met the second happiest man, or the first happiest man, so I can't judge where I fall into that category.

I thoroughly enjoy this profession and everything that goes into it - from improving your own guys and also the game-planning and studying the opponents. I enjoy that, I really do.

I watch a couple of fights to get a visual image in my head. I don't like doing a lot of research on my opponents; I leave that to my coaches.

If you have an opponent who is clearly better than you, then OK, you have something to analyse.

I think when people say Madrid are playing well and Barca are not and vice-versa, or when one wins the Champions League, it's better than the other, I don't think that makes sense. Everyone takes their own path.

Efforts to reform are often met with resistance because the system always tries to fall back to the status quo and what is comfortable.

The only situation a commander can know fully is his own: his opponent's he can know only from unreliable intelligence.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

Mosley is bigger than me. He's fast and his hand speed is still there. He's faster than most of my opponents. He's also preparing hard and he's also good, so we never underestimate our opponent.

You have to learn the opponent psychologically inside out and mental strength is one of the important makers. You're either gonna break it or make it.

One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall.

It is astonishing to realize that until Galileo performed his experiments on the acceleration of gravity in the early seventeenth century, nobody questioned Aristotle's falling balls. Nobody said, Show Me!

Mann and Joyce are very different, and yet their fiction often appeals to the same people: Harry Levin taught a famous course on Joyce, Proust, and Mann, and Joseph Campbell singled out Joyce and Mann as special favorites. To see them as offering "possibilities for living", as I do, isn't to identify any distinctive commonality. After all, many great authors would fall under that rubric.

It's always wise to seek the truth in our opponents' error, and the error in our own truth.

Offensively, you do what you do best and you do it again and again. Defensively, you attack your opponent's strength.

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

Works of the intellect are great only by comparison with each other.

A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.

The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

"This is old, therefore it is good"; the other says, "This is new, therefore it is better."

Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.

Boxing isn't just about brute strength; it's about skill and outwitting your opponent.

Last season I scored 27 goals but still lost out against Robert Lewandowski. This season has started very well for me, but again I have some tough opponents, most notably with Anthony Modeste from FC Koln. I texted him the other day: "Keep calm, my friend." I am happy for him to be so successful. And in a certain way it even helps me. The better the other strikers are, the more I have to work to be to be ahead of them.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.