Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The dissolution of the pictorial into sheer texture, into apparently sheer sensation, into an accumulation of repetitions, seems to speak for and… — Clement Greenberg Copy Share Image
The immense accumulations of fixed capital which, to the great benefit of mankind, were built up during the half century before the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I believe in the religion of reason -- the gospel of this world; in the development of the mind, in the accumulation… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The amount of poverty and suffering required for the emergence of a Rockefeller, and the amount of depravity that the accumulation of… — Che Guevara Copy Share Image
The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of… — Hilde Bruch Copy Share Image
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals.… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
If our goal in legislating against carbon releases is not simply punishing the West and its power companies but truly trying to… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
The crisis is a concrete threatening reality today. It stands to get catastrophically worse unless we take action before the accumulation [of]… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging… — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
Each wave of sightings adds to the accumulation of reports which defy analysis by present methods... An investigative process in depth is… — J. Allen Hynek Copy Share Image
..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Eventually economic growth reaches the point at which the accumulation of wealth in the families of achievers becomes so significant that the… — Robert Sheaffer Copy Share Image
Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
My art is grounded in the belief of one universal energy which runs through everything: from insect to man, from man to… — Ana Mendieta Copy Share Image
If you get a flow of credit increasing, as we've seen in the last few years - that flow of credit didn't… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
For several centuries Western civilization has had a drive for material accumulation, continual extensions of economic power, termed 'progress'...The longing for growth… — Gary Snyder Copy Share Image
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
Karma is often wrongly confused with the notion of a fixed destiny. It is more like an accumulation of tendencies that can… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages… — Henry Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Attention is riveted on what is tangible, useful, instantly available; the stimulus for deeper thought and reflection may be lacking. Yet human… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Not a week goes by without my learning something new about golf. That means, of course, that I was ignorant of eight… — Peter Dobereiner Copy Share Image
In a sense, photographs are highly literary, and the photographer, like the writer, has to be both a master of craft and… — Peter C Bunnell Copy Share Image
One important idea is that science is a means whereby learning is achieved, not by mere theoretical speculation on the one hand,… — George E. P. Box Copy Share Image
We're always projecting our moral categories on things. I think that's inevitable. But capitalism places no particular value on morality. Morality in… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
We live an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I am over-run, jungled in my bed, I am infested with a menagerie of desires: my heart is eaten by a dove,… — Elizabeth Smart Copy Share Image
To me, if there is any sort of value added to the accumulation of knowledge over time, then the work of artists… — Kerry James Marshall Copy Share Image
Through the continued accumulation of detailed and reliable knowledge about elementary reactions, we will be in a better position to understand, predict… — Yuan T. Lee Copy Share Image
I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation… — Duane Elgin Copy Share Image
In almost every enterprise, government has provided business with opportunities for private gain at public expense. Government nurtures private capital accumulation through… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
A nation cannot prosper if its members are not fully aware of the fact that what alone can improve their condition s… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image