Quinn's First Law of Investing is never to buy anything whose price you can't follow in the newspapers. An investment without a… — Jane Bryant Quinn Copy Share Image
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Today, as we have seen, fascism and communism are discredited, but are replaced by a paraphilic consumer culture driven by fantasy, desperately… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between… — John Green Copy Share Image
Reality is much more complex than any judgment of right and wrong encourages you to believe. When you really understand the ethical,… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments… — Jacob T. Schwartz Copy Share Image
In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that… — Stewart Lee Copy Share Image
This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of… — John Maynard Smith Copy Share Image
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Perhaps randomness is not merely an adequate description for complex causes that we cannot specify. Perhaps the world really works this way,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Every democracy must involve civil society in the process of establishing budgets, and all sectors of society must be consulted to determine… — Alfred-Maurice de Zayas Copy Share Image
The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Bookish people drolly claim to be addicted. I think, in some cases, this is literally true. . . . I suppose this… — Henrietta Rose-Innes Copy Share Image
The Sunnis continue to see themselves, possibly for nostalgic reasons, as the most influential group and want a stronger central government -… — Zalmay Khalilzad Copy Share Image
The modern world needs people with a complex identity who are intellectually autonomous and prepared to cope with uncertainty; who are able… — Robert J. Havighurst Copy Share Image
It's a very organic kind of way that people are discovering it, by word of mouth, which I always think is the… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as philosophical progress, then why - unlike scientific progress - is it so invisible? Philosophical progress… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Childhood is analogous to language learning. It has a biological basis but cannot be realized unless a social environment triggers and nurtures… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The environmental issues we face today are complex and span many knowledge domains. This undergraduate degree programme in Environmental Studies will nurture… — Tan Chorh Chuan Copy Share Image
To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable… — Chase Twichell Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school in Princeton, I was told to take three courses. One of them to work on really… — Richard Askey Copy Share Image
I love the English language just like I love all American things. But I confess that I don't feel confident using complex… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
A statue of Apollo in a museum does not seem naked, but attach a tie to its neck and it will strike… — Yuri Lotman Copy Share Image
The real thing we tried to look at is what happens to a society when the state is absent. At that point,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The more complex our economy, the more we should rely on the miraculous, self-adapting processes of men acting freely. No mind of… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Unconscious of your story, you are in its grasp; but with consciousness, an alchemical process begins: The solidity of the complex dissolves… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
It happens from time to time in every complex and active society, that certain persons feel the complexity and insistence as a… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Simplicity is the heart of everything. If you look to the desert, apparently the desert is very simple but it's full of… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship… — Aung San Copy Share Image
The rise of the punishing state and the governing-through-crime youth complex throughout American society suggests the need for a politics that not… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ongoing stream of self-description, telling yourself what is happening. Get used to the idea that mind can penetrate the immediate… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn. I… — Katie Holmes Copy Share Image
We must pay close attention to the signals our body sends - the aches and pains, digestions and indigestions, increased energies and… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The complex ways in which we produce and reproduce the world in technologically developed societies involves the ways in which we separate… — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
In terms of the actual curriculum for management education, my own view is very simple-minded: The world is incredibly complex, it changes… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
![“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that…” quote by John Maynard Smith](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8b2/john-maynard-smith-28856_argument_this-argument-that-life-is-too-improbabl_1662785.png)
![“We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked in vats, long complex derivatives of urine which we called plastic. They had no odor of the living, ... their touch was alien to nature. ... [They proliferated]…” quote by Norman Mailer](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/a39/norman-mailer-839_aliens_we-divorced-ourselves-from-the-materials_880092.png)
![“Growing up, I always had my dreams set on being an actor, so I looked up to Julia Roberts, Audrey Hepburn. I also look up to Kate Winslet and Renée [Zellweger] and Cate Blanchett...and Diane Keaton - she's a genius. I think it's very inspiring to see these women attack such complex roles.” quote by Katie Holmes](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/08d/katie-holmes-6657_actors_growing-up-i-always-had-my-dreams-set-on_439630.jpg)
