The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
one of the greatest hindrances to happiness in the present day is our tendency to standardize our conception of it. — J. E. Buckrose Copy Share Image
“In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions. — Randal Marlin Copy Share Image
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day. — Liliʻuokalani Copy Share Image
Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
It would be a mistake to assume that the present day educational system is unchanging. On the contrary, it is undergoing rapid… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
From the earliest ages of history to the present day there never have been thirteen millions of people associated in one political… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Present-day American society-whether through pop culture, religion, or institutions-conflates sexuality and morality constantly. Idolizing virginity as a stand-in for women’s morality means… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“If we would examine our hearts and minds, plant our feet firmly on the ground like this ageless for tree, and lift… — Kimila Kay Copy Share Image
Our forefathers regarded as a prodigy the passage of the Alps: first by Hannibal and, more recently, by the Cimbri; but at… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
“Leading by example through "Servant Leadership" used to be a badge of honor that distinguished you from the Corps of the Blue… — Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army Copy Share Image
“But I must be content with only one more and a concluding illustration; a remarkable and most significant one, by which you… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“You remember when they sent a deputation to him and asked if he was Elias, or this prophet, or that prophet, he… — D.L. Moody Copy Share Image
“The idea of God opening up my life, and seeing all the secrets of my heart, the heart that I know all… — Patrick Davis Copy Share Image
We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies… — Leon V. DePoncins Copy Share Image
“Charles Kahn offers the following summary of how a new metaphysics takes shape in Islamic philosophy: 'My general view of the historical… — James Conant Copy Share Image
“Most times he knew there was no hope for Arjuro and Gargarin and Lirah and De Lancey. Too much pain in the… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Tertuliano Máximo Afonso is greatly in need of stimuli to distract him, he lives alone and gets bored, or, to speak with… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A synthesis embracing both rational understanding and the mystical experience of unity is the mythos, spoken or unspoken, or our present day… — Wolfgang Pauli Copy Share Image
History, human or geological, represents our hypothesis, couched in terms of past events, devised to explain our present-day observations. — M. King Hubbert Copy Share Image
The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Racism is over in the 'Star Trek' future, but they found a way to comment on sexism and racism in the present… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another. — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
“The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The everyday issues that we witness against women in the present day will throw light on the respect women enjoyed at the… — Dalip Tahil Copy Share Image
“No high-minded man, no man of right feeling, can contemplate the lumbering and slovenly lying of the present day without grieving to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
The United States has lost her unique position as a leader in the progress of civilization and has taken up her place… — Charles Eliot Norton Copy Share Image
When you look at Istanbul, from Byzantium to the present day, it's striking how it has always been a city of the… — Bettany Hughes Copy Share Image
I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
“One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
