Top 283 Detect Quotes & Sayings

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials.

The hardest lies to detect are the ones surrounded by truth.

I can smell bullshit from a mile away but it's so much harder to detect when it's around you all day.

You can detect Satan's schemes and overcome his world system.

It is a common fact that we see light flashes in a dark environment while living up here, and this experiment is essentially trying to detect how we humans detect these flashes - not sure if these are visual, if they are some type of radiation maybe sensed by some other part of the brain.

It's important for the Fed, hard as it is, to attempt to detect asset bubbles while they're forming.

If you can't detect the sarcasm you've misunderstood.

No matter what you say in carefully chosen sentences, girls will detect both the spoken and unspoken messages.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.

Presumably there are energies, to which each human is sensitive, that we cannot yet detect by means of our instruments. Built into our brains and our bodies are very sensitive tuneable receivers for energies that we do not yet know about in our science but that each one of us can detect under the proper circumstances and the proper state of mind. We can tune our nervous systems and bodies to receive these energies. We can also tune our brains and bodies to transmit these energies.

Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.

If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

A mistake in drawing becomes difficult to detect when the eye is familiar with it.

We have gutted our ability to detect the next attack. And I would not stand for that as president of the United States.

Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office.

It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.

Detect and fix any problem in a production process at the lowest stage possible.

The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is vastly more important on elementary moral grounds, and commonly more important in terms of direct human consequences as well. Intellectuals have historically played a critical function in performing these tasks, and [Ivan] Illich is right to observe that claims to scientific expertise and special knowledge are often used as a device.

as the physicians say it happens in hectic fever, that in the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure

We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

The Holy Ghost is the only One who can detect the temptations of Satan, neither our common sense nor our human wisdom can detect them as temptations.

It's hard to detect good luck - it looks so much like something you've earned.

You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil.

You can't defend. You can't prevent. The only thing you can do is detect and respond.

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it.

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

As we develop better technologies for probing the brain, we detect more problems.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Our companies are active worldwide. I don't detect globalisation angst among them.

A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect.

You know your gut instincts are spot on about a person when you can also detect a water source in the soil beneath them.

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

One of the deepest motives (as you are aware) in the human beast (so deep that many have failed to detect it) is Alliteration.

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.

A society without the means to detect lies and theft soon squanders its liberty and freedom.

I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.

I sometimes detect that a type of regional divide is setting in, and there is a lack of real Caribbean connection among the islands, and I am concerned about this.

When wine drinkers tell me they taste notes of cherries, tobacco and rose petals, usually all I can detect is a whole lot of jackass.

Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

Contrary to what we've been told, children can detect deceit in parents much easier than parents can detect deceit in children.

Doctors and nurses, with their training and their experiences, they would be able to detect unusual patterns of disease. That's why we say it is important for every country to have a proper surveillance system. The function of the surveillance system is to detect unusual patterns of diseases.

DO I DETECT A NOTE OF UNSEASONAL GRUMPINESS? said Death. NO SUGAR PIGGYWIGGY FOR YOU, ALBERT.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

The earliest period at which I have been able to detect the existence of the spleen in the human embryo is at the second month.

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.

At a bare minimum, understanding entails being able to detect an internal contradiction: a paradox.

In German. I'm more sensitized to the details, to the emotions. In English, I wouldn't detect as much nuance.

Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect.

The real value of tests is not that they detect bugs in the code but that they detect inadequacies in the methods, concentration, and skills of those who design and produce the code.

We don't invent our missions, we detect them.

Being a historian, if only for the day, teaches you useful things like judgment, and the ability to detect when someone is lying to you.

There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. Our political life is also predicated on openness. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress.

We are often confident even when we are wrong, and an objective observer is more likely to detect our errors than we are.