A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.
Robert McNamara

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.
Warren Buffett

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
George Santayana

Advertising is, actually, a simple phenomenon in terms of economics. It is merely a substitute for a personal sales force - an extension, if you will, of the merchant who cries aloud his wares.
Rosser Reeves

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
James Madison

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho

Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis.
Alfred P. Sloan

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.
Paul Weyrich

Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute 'Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.'
Ernestine Rose

Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
Saint Augustine

Compassion is no substitute for justice.
Rush Limbaugh

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.
Russell Lynes

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver.
Ambrose Bierce

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'.
Paul Graham

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.
Charles Dickens

Eroding solidarity paradoxically makes a society more susceptible to the construction of substitute collectives and fascisms of all kinds.
Elfriede Jelinek

Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.
John Shadegg

However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them.
Francesca Annis