William Tecumseh Sherman's Quotes

War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.

There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them.

War is hell.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.

I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the city of Savannah.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I intend to make Georgia howl.

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

A battery of field artillery is worth a thousand muskets.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion.

But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths.

For solving a surprisingly large and varied number of problems, crowds are smarter than individuals.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

We think of our eyes as video cameras and our brains as blank tapes to be filled with sensory inputs.

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper.

But there is only one surefire method of proper pattern recognition, and that is science.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

Either the soul survives death or it does not, and there is no scientific evidence that it does.

Human history is highly nonlinear and unpredictable.

One, I am skeptical of the effectiveness of nutritional supplements.

Plato wove historical fact into literary myth.

The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive.

Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience.

In comparison, Google is brilliant because it uses an algorithm that ranks Web pages by the number of links to them, with those links themselves valued by the number of links to their page of origin.

No single discovery from any of these fields denotes proof of evolution, but together they reveal that life evolved in a certain sequence by a particular process.

The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.

We should be exploring consciousness at the neural level and higher, where the arrow of causal analysis points up toward such principles as emergence and self-organization.