We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
... we engage in politics because we don't know anything. This is clearly revealed in the way we go about it. Our… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
I am writing for the Christian agnostic, by which I mean a person who is immensely attracted to Christ and who seeks… — Leslie Weatherhead Copy Share Image
One night, I was chatting with a group of 16-year-old girls over a few drinks about a name for the record store… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Giving free advice is a sad waste of effort. In the first place, no man will act upon it unless he is… — William H. McMaster Copy Share Image
Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I've got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don't have Twitter or Facebook or anything like that. It… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
A lot of people involved with celebrity journalism have interesting ideas about the people they want to write about going into the… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
It's just a weird idea to me because each book is a complete universe unto itself, so why would I want this… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
Does political correctness have a good side? Yes, it does, for it makes us re-examine attitudes, and that is always useful. The… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
...And then, just when everything is bearing down on us to such an extent that we can scarcely withstand it, the Christmas… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have the challenges sort of already there and as a consequence my companions feel a considerable desire to do this, too,… — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
In the case of, like, Childish Gambino, he is someone who is a writer by trade, so he is very meticulous about… — Hiro Murai Copy Share Image
. . I think the Adam Smith role was played in this cycle i.e. the late twentieth century collapse of socialism in… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
“Truth, says instrumentalism, is what works out, that which does what you expect it to do. The judgment is true when you… — Holly Estil Cunningham Copy Share Image
I would advise puppeteering for any artist. It's a way to break down pretensions. It's a sculpture that can talk. It's a… — Wayne White Copy Share Image
I have no idea what happens, but I do respond to other cultures that treat life with a much more positive approach.… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. I take half-matured schemes for mechanical development… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
There is no hunt in Thanet, nor is there a fox problem. There is no Tooting hunt, no Wandsworth hunt and no… — Roger Gale Copy Share Image
The idea of a method that contains firm, unchanging, and absolutely binding principles for conducting the business of science meets considerable difficulty… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I… — Tracy Hickman Copy Share Image
I've learned the idea of pausing when agitated or doubtful. I can still write the e-mail but instead of sending that e-mail… — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
Olive Ann describes Sanna as 'a perfectionist and a worrier.' She is obsessed with the idea of finding happiness, and for her,… — Olive Ann Burns Copy Share Image
“A good psychologist will take already-traumatic events in your life and work with you to contextualize them as non-traumatic. A bad psychologist… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses…If that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
If my stories make people uncomfortable, because it questions your set ideas and value systems that are convenient for a group of… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the… — Paul Watzlawick Copy Share Image
I think any break-up from a long relationship has this accompanying feeling of who am I without this person. You feel like… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
In my view, immigrants today aren't any different from immigrants who have come to America throughout our nation's history. They bring new… — Dick Armey Copy Share Image
Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Well, all across the country, this is kind of sad, unemployment offices are swamped with people waiting to file for unemployment insurance.… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The State, on the other hand, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based… — Albert J. Nock Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask questions that they don't want to answer themselves, and if we're honest about the intimacy that we… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
Code wants to be simple... I had to give up the idea that I had the perfect vision of the system to… — Kent Beck Copy Share Image
![“[A] couple I had known - who were old friends - asked me what I was going to work on next. I told them I wanted to write a near future book about AIDS concentration camps. They were vehement in their response: they thought it was a terrible idea. Their words both shocked and saddened me. "Do you…” quote by Tracy Hickman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/19b/tracy-hickman-28104_aids_a-couple-i-had-known-who-were-old-friend_2701879.jpg)
