Can you measure it? Can you express it in figures? Can you make a model of it? If not, your theory is apt to be based more upon imagination than upon knowledge.
Men are apt to overvalue the tongues, and to think they have made considerable progress in learning when they have once overcome these; yet in reality there is no internal worth in them, and men may understand a thousand languages without being the wiser.
Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well.
It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
I cannot too greatly emphasize the importance and value of Bible study - more important than ever before in these days of uncertainties, when men and woman are apt to decide questions from the standpoint of expediency rather than the eternal principles laid down by God, Himself.
A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.
We may define "faith" as the firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of "faith. " We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups, substitute different emotions.
Hypertext makes a virtue out of lack of organization, allowing ideas and thoughts to be juxtaposed at will. [. . . ] The advent of hypertext is apt to make writing much more difficult, not easier. Good writing, that is.
Too many people are apt to redeem their profits too quickly. In a huge bull market they wind up with piddling profits, only to watch their former holdings soar. That usually prompts them into making mistakes later when, believing that the market owes them some money, they buy at the wrong time at much higher levels.
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.
The concept of a mental state is primarily the concept of a state of the person apt for bringing about a certain sort of behaviour.
Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
The blood that is once inflamed with wine is apt to boil with rage.
A jury is more apt to be unbiased and independent than a court, but they very seldom stand up against strong public clamor. Judges naturally believe the defendant is guilty.
Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!
Beginnings are apt to be shadowy.
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.