Honing Theory

Famous quotes containing the words honing and/or theory:

“His conversation glided on the brain
Like a razor honing in promise of one’s decease....”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)

“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)