The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time. — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Monsters exist because we create them, through war and violence, and distortion, and the way we handle people and so on. — Leon Golub Copy Share Image
Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision. — Larry Graham Copy Share Image
Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our attempts to reshape others may produce change, but the change is distortion rather than transformation. — David Keirsey Copy Share Image
“Avoid jumping into conclusion! This may cause your idea fractured. Authority will not be responsible!” — Abhijit Kar Gupta Copy Share Image
composition is notation of distortion of what composers think they've heard before. Masterpieces are marvelous misquotations. — Ned Rorem Copy Share Image
Laughter is an interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The Beatles had some juice when it came to distortion, but Clapton was finally able to break through those early studio engineers'… — Joe Perry Copy Share Image
Along with the rest of the establishment, the BBC which, to be fair, can make superb documentaries - seems to have swallowed… — Melanie Phillips Copy Share Image
I think the greatest tragedy of mankind is that people have ideas and opinions in their heads but don't have a process… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
The Cold War had become a battlefield marked by doublespeak. Disguise, distortion, and deception were accepted as reality. Truth was promised in… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Narcissists only play for their own business, whereas Distortionists play with other’s business only to gain personal advantage. If you are both,… — Ashish Patel Copy Share Image
Unless we look at a person and see the beauty there is in this person, we can contribute nothing to him. One… — Anthony of Sourozh Copy Share Image
To translate kinesics or paralinguistic messages into words is likely to introduce gross falsification due not merely to the human propensity for… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has… — Shmuley Boteach Copy Share Image
The lens, that allegedly impartial eye, permits all possible distortions of reality... The importance of photography lies not only in the fact… — Gisele Freund Copy Share Image
“...human beings have a distorted view of risk. They don't see the whole picture. Our perceptions are twisted by stories in the… — Ruth Dugdall Copy Share Image
“A voice materializes out of the distortion in his headphones, then fades, and he goes ferreting after it. There, thinks Werner when… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Writers like Aldous Huxley and George Orwell have imagined the sort of scientific utopia which is coming to pass, but already their… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The number one problem in academia today is not ignorant students but ignorant professors, who have substituted narrow "expertise" and "theoretical sophistication"… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We must believe that "emotion recollected in tranquillity" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
The Reverend Douglas Wilson may not be a professional historian, as his detractors say, but he has a strong grasp of the… — Eugene Genovese Copy Share Image
Although it is easier to find information these days, it is easier than ever before to find misinformation, pseudo-facts, unsupported and fringe… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
“Kuwa makini na kila kitu unachofanya kwa maana ubongo ni kitu cha ajabu, ubongo una uwezo wa kukupotosha.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
