Substitution Quotes

“Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute.”

“Your knowledge is not a substitute for your passion. No matter how knowledgeable you are, when laziness takes the lead in your daily decisions, your knowledge becomes valueless!”

“Yet her experience had consisted less in a series of pure disappointments than in a series of substitutions. Continually it had happened that what she had desired had not been granted her, and that what had been granted her she had not desired. So she viewed with an approach to equanimity the now cancelled days when Donald had been her undeclared lover, and wondered what unwished-for thing Heaven might send her in place of him.”

“Prayer cannot be a substitution for action.”

“The mind work sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...”

“Gross Domestic Product—the substitution, in effect, of ideas for physical value.”

“The central challenge for educational systems around the world is the substitution of effectiveness for popularity.”

“Madness, genius, originality - it's all the same thing; it's a breaking of our normal value structure and the substitution of another one.”

“I caught one last glimpse of her face, howling something at me.There were too many vowels in what she said, and they were in an unkind order. ("Substitutions")”

“The enemy of science is not religion. Religion comes in endless shapes and forms... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma.”