When people tell you who they are, Maya Angelou famously advised, believe them. Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell… — Maria Popova Copy Share Image
Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with… — Peter A. Levine Copy Share Image
The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Our entire society is based on discontent. People wanting more and more and more. Being constantly dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies,… — Tana French Copy Share Image
The assumption is that people so ignorant and thoughtless and silly and greedy may simply call upon the Army Corps of Engineers… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Later, she would remember these years, and realize with astonishment that she had, by fifteen, decided on most of the assumptions she… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
In the Life of Darwin by his son, there is related an incident of how the great naturalist once studied long as… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
To contact the cosmic giggle, to have the flow of casuistry begin to give off synchronistic ripples, whitecaps in the billows of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Like an unexpected wet mop in the face of tired complacency, The Sovereignty Solution works on the receptive mind as a pry… — Adam Garfinkle Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Perhaps I may record here my protest against the efforts, so often made, to shield children and young people from all that… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
So much confusion about belief in God, morality, and science arises, not from what people say they believe, but rather from mistaken… — Francis J. Beckwith Copy Share Image
Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life… — Charles Evans Hughes Copy Share Image
My "thinking" time was devoted mainly to activities that were essentially clerical or mechanical: searching, calculating, plotting, transforming, determining the logical or… — J. C. R. Licklider Copy Share Image
If they are incorporated into the Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and… — Raoul Peck Copy Share Image
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When George W.Bush attacked Afghanistan, it was widely hailed, and the failure of our war there wasn't understood. Within a few months… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
The belief in God is not therefore based on the perception of design in nature. Belief in design in nature is based… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
"There is one basis of science," says Descartes, "one test and rule of truth, namely, that whatever is clearly and distinctly conceived… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Much like teaching art to young art students age 10 to 15 or so on, you have to break it down into… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You really have to wonder why we even bother to get up in the morning. I mean, really: Why work? Simply to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
As soon as science has emerged from its initial stages, theoretical advances are no longer achieved merely by a process of arrangement.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
In practice we always base our preparations against an enemy on the assumption that his plans are good; indeed, it is right… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But the doctors in the past, as the review of the evidence showed, branded Jenner, Semmelweis, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Pasteur, Lister,… — Paul Douglas Copy Share Image
The artist must operate on the assumption that the public consists in the highest order of individual; that he is civilized, cultured,… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
A common obstruction to a vital intimate relationship is what I call the assumption of clairvoyance. You imagine, perhaps unconsciously, that your… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
It is becoming plain that our liberal regime of equality and personal freedom depends, more than most theorists of liberalism have been… — Mary Ann Glendon Copy Share Image
As I looked more carefully at the listening matrix I saw that during the past twenty years we had taken a magnifying… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“In any kind of relationship we can make the assumption that others know what we think, and we don’t have to say… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
