Substitute Quotes

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science.

There is no substitute for victory.

We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.

There's no substitute for live work to keep a band together.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

You can't substitute promise after promise with known violators of prior promises at the expense of protecting ourselves or setting an example.

To the extent that you can find ways where you're making predictions, there's no substitute for testing yourself on real-world situations that you don't know the answer to in advance.

I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this aircraft could perhaps substitute for three propeller- driven aircraft of the best existing type. This was my impression.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it.

Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.

Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

To conquer nature is, in effect, to remove all natural barriers and human norms and to substitute artificial, fabricated equivalents for natural processes.

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

When we say that Philosophy tries to clear up the meanings of concepts we do not mean that it is simply concerned to substitute some long phrase for some familiar word.

In war there is no substitute for victory.