But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill it teaches the whole people by example. Crime is… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I would caution my Republican friends that [Obama has] three years to go, and in that three years the American people are… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The Sacrament of the Body of the Lord puts the demons to flight, defends us against the incentives to vice and to… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up… — Confucius Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest barrier to revival on a large scale is the fact that we are to interested in a great display.… — Sadhu Sundar Singh Copy Share Image
As if to demonstrate, by a striking example, the impossibility of erecting any cerebral barrier between man and the apes, Nature has… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tell the story, gather the events, repeat them. Pattern is a matter of upkeep. Otherwise the weave relaxes back to threads picked… — Ann-Marie MacDonald Copy Share Image
I've been pulled out of my nice new car and laid out in the street by the police, interrogated and then have… — Ice T Copy Share Image
Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our selves, could become a prisoner, we tend… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
...the story of a man who saw three fellows laying bricks at a new building: He approached the first and asked, What… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
The head of a Pike, served at supper, is said to have caused the death from terror of Theodoric the Goth, who… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I think some of the best sex writing is going to come from the unexpected sources, not the same old same old.… — Rachel Kramer Bussel Copy Share Image
That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was a dark little tale about a… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The essence of totalitarian government, and perhaps the nature of every bureaucracy, is to make functionaries and mere cogs in the administrative… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Neither man nor woman is perfect or complete without the other. Thus, no marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely… — Sheri L. Dew Copy Share Image
When it shall please God to bring thee to man's estate, use great providence and circumspection in choosing thy wife. For from… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
When running a Ponzi scheme, how does one avoid enormous, unexpected withdrawals - runs on the bank, so to speak - that… — Mitchell Zuckoff Copy Share Image
As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I'm the guy who will persist in his path. I'm the guy who will make you laugh. I'm the guy who strives… — Blake Jenner Copy Share Image
You can not ignore his current life. Bowie has become a family man and enjoys to see his children grow up close… — Gail Ann Dorsey Copy Share Image
One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It was cold and clammy in the stone cell; they called it the "cooler," and used it to reduce the temperature of… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
Remember, until you become a buddha you have wasted your life. Buddhahood is your flowering, your fragrance. A tree is fulfilled when… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both… — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I am a being of Heaven and Earth,of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and… — Eden Ahbez Copy Share Image
Making photographs that dealt with the understanding of who I am as a gay man and dealt with the process of accepting… — Wardell Milan Copy Share Image
My experience has taught me, and it has become a principle with me, that it is never any benefit to give out… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
Men often joke about this assignment (I Peter 3:7): 'Who can understand a woman?' God has answered the question loud and clear.… — Stu Weber Copy Share Image
Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them,… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The few took advantage of the ignorant many. They pretended to have received messages from the Unknown. They stood between the helpless… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
A man who took great pride in his lawn found himself with a large crop of dandelions. He tried every method he… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image