Textbooks, it seems to me, are enemies of education, instruments for promoting dogmatism and trivial learning. They may save the teacher some… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
A subtle-witted man is like an arrow, which, rending little surface, enters deeply, but they whose minds are dull resemble stones dashing… — Magha Copy Share Image
the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
I'll just say that I made my own explorations of tone by listening to a tone for a long time until I… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised,… — Walter Keane Copy Share Image
“The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
When I get my feelings hurt, or when things scare me, or freak out my sensibilities, or when my feathers get ruffled,… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
This doctrine, that of the ghost in the machine, strictly separates the mind or soul from the body. And by doing so… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So plastic is mind, so receptive, that the slightest thought makes an impression upon it. People who think many kinds of thought… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Death is unimportant to a yogi; he does not mind when he is going to die. What happens after death is immaterial… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
When you're first in love with somebody, and it's not true love, it's borderline obsession, it's kind of like an addiction. You… — Juno Temple Copy Share Image
He also didn't mind Piper's using him for a pillow. She had a cute way of breathing when she slept - inhaling… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I didn't write with a target audience in mind. What excited me was how much I would enjoy writing about Harry. I… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low, as to… — Henry Highland Garnet Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside… — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
I don't take notes. I don't have any notebooks. I keep on trying to do that because it seems like a very… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Brahman is the ultimate reality; it is simultaneously Saguna and Nirguna; divisions are due to ignorance. Mind and intellect can never catch… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In my mind, I was still Chimere's father. I was there when he was born. I saw him when he first came… — Ne-Yo Copy Share Image
“He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. They were deeper and they did not need to be… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
A lot of people think that reptiles don't feel, and they do. I think everyone should keep in mind what it is… — Laura Vandervoort Copy Share Image
Sanguine felt the ridiculous urge to reach out and poke him, just to see if he’d react, but he’d seen that kind… — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
Art addresses itself to the mind, and not to the eyes. It has always been considered in this way by primitive peoples,… — Jean Dubuffet Copy Share Image
I do think that what's wonderful in life is that we gain perspective as we take on different roles that are mind… — Uma Thurman Copy Share Image
Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point… — Gloria Naylor Copy Share Image
I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
“But the calm had brought a sort of courage and hope with it. Instead of giving way to thoughts of the worst,… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of… — Emile Zola Copy Share Image
The man was hit in one eye by a stone, and that eye turned inward so that it looked into his mind,… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
Sooner or later disasters such as an asteroid collision or a nuclear war could wipe us all out, But once we spread… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“The infinite distance between the mind & the body is a symbol of the distance that is infinitely more, between the intellect… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Sometimes people chat loosely. Sometimes people just speak their minds and what's on their mind ain't necessarily real or facts, so I… — Dizzee Rascal Copy Share Image
