I can't really blame a lot of young sisters and brothers who believe that education has anything to offer them. Because as… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Successful men are influenced by the desire for pleasing results. Failures are influenced by the desire for pleasing methods and are inclined… — Albert L. Gray Copy Share Image
All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters… — Corinne Heline Copy Share Image
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation. I expected —… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts.… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The people as a body cannot deliberate. Nevertheless, they will feel an irresistible impulse to act, and their resolutions will be dictated… — Fisher Ames Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I'd watch shows like 'The Kids in the Hall' or 'Twin Peaks,' and I'd see weird people being celebrated and appreciated without… — Emily V. Gordon Copy Share Image
It is naively assumed that the fact that the majority of people share certain ideas and feelings proves the validity of these… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Belief is one of the most powerful organic forces in the multiverse. It may not be able to move mountains, exactly. But… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It's my belief that one of the unconscious reasons which underlies the odd attitude of the establishment toward hallucinogens is the fact… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
This is a record I ended up having to make to get on to the next stage of my life. What I… — Luke Haines Copy Share Image
The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is… — Karl Pearson Copy Share Image
God exist whether or not men may choose to believe in Him. The reason why many people do not believe in God… — Robert Alexander Crookston Laidlaw Copy Share Image
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Who can tell whether the parallelogram, which in our ignorance we have defined and drawn, and the whole of whose properties we… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
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You wouldn't believe how many FDA officials or relatives or acquaintances of FDA officials come to see me as patients in Hanover.… — Hans Alfred Nieper Copy Share Image
The only intelligible language in which we converse with one another consists of our objects in their relation to each other. We… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don’t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The heritage of the American Revolution is forgotten, and the American government, for better and for worse, has entered into theheritage of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
In short, evolution is as close to being a scientific fact as is possible for any theory, given that science is open… — Victor J. Stenger Copy Share Image
When you're an immigrant, you're at the bottom of the ladder. You might not be at the bottom of the ladder economically.… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
If you let other people do some of the work that we ask ourselves to do, if you allow for the fact… — Alva Noe Copy Share Image
How far must a Christian go in order to be saved? Only to the Cross. But if I am disobeying God in… — Alan Redpath Copy Share Image
Just because life is hard, and always ends in a bad way, doesn't mean that all stories have to, even if that's… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder, yet nothing is more necessary, than to speak of certain things whose existence is neither demonstrable nor probable. The… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The young specialist in English Lit, ...lectured me severely on the fact that in every century people have thought they understood the… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
I still partially suffer from the delusion that if you explain things logically and systematically, most people will abandon their emotional prejudices… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
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