(I)t is simply wrong to confuse cowardice with appeasement. Cowardice is a failing of character. Appeasement is a failure of policy. Stalin… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes I will tweet things without an audience in mind at all, just because I want to say something that I don't… — Mira Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I think everybody should just turn off their TV machines and make up their own songs about whatever comes to mind-their couch,… — Beck Copy Share Image
If you understand something in only one way, then you don't really understand it at all. The secret of what anything means… — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
When you have something on your mind that you really have coming out of your brain... just talking to the beat, it's… — Ryan Montgomery Copy Share Image
I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Today's generation likes stand-up comedies in which the performers give their take on a number of subjects. Some of them are a… — Ashok Saraf Copy Share Image
There are stories in the Bible about people telling other people how to do things. When you hear this young man say… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The things of God are of great import; and time, and experience,and careful, and ponderous, and solemn thoughts can only find them… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
What is essential to practice the Tao is to get rid of cravings and vexations. If these afflictions are not removed, it… — Zhang Sanfeng Copy Share Image
Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to… — Gerald May Copy Share Image
I've never had much interest in spinoffery - the idea of writing in someone else's universe generally leaves me cold - but… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
Psychologists call it "defocused attention," where you broaden your horizons, let your mind float and drift a bit. Coffee keeps us sharp… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
You need to have a passionate interest in why things are happening. That cast of mind, kept over long periods, gradually improves… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
“We regard promissory materialism as superstition without a rational foundation. The more we discover about the brain, the more clearly do we… — John C. Eccles Copy Share Image
“The pattern recognition theory of mind that I articulate in this book is based on a different fundamental unit: not the neuron… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
From early childhood I had always dreamed of becoming an explorer. Somehow I had acquired the impression that an explorer was someone… — John Goddard Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't understand why it's more socially acceptable to say that you are a shallow person than to just say this is… — Meghan Daum Copy Share Image
Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to be alone.… — George Formby Copy Share Image
I use a computer, but before I begin each new book I keep a notebook. I write down everything that comes to… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
There are people in our world today and unfortunately in our political system, they do not believe in evil. They have the… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to… — Arshile Gorky Copy Share Image
When we have our body and mind in order, everything else will exist in the right place, in the right way. But… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words… — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My upbringing has been pushing and pulling my work my whole life. At first it pushed me away, as I sought to… — Clayton James Cubitt Copy Share Image
The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte Copy Share Image
You cannot hide any secret. If the artist succor his flagging spirits by opium or wine, his work will characterize itself as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies and cherishing… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,… — William James Copy Share Image
It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
An image is a bridge between evoked emotion and conscious knowledge; words are the cables that hold up the bridge. Images are… — Gloria E. Anzaldúa Copy Share Image
But just as it sometimes happens that the most temperate people, who have never acquired the habit of drinking alcohol, or even… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
“Now he experienced a feeling akin to that of a man whom while calmly crossing a bridge over a precipice, should suddenly… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
