Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
The majority of problems on this planet are the result of the idea that humans are not sovereign and autonomous, but property… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member… — Herman Kahn Copy Share Image
Shows were very different then - even as the headliner we did a very short set by today's standards and sound systems… — Peter Asher Copy Share Image
Running is a simple, primitive act, and therein lays its power. For it is one of the few commonalities left between us… — Dean Karnazes Copy Share Image
A very little familiarity with the poor districts of any city is sufficient to show how primitive and genuine are the neighborly… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
I am almost certain that space and time are illusions. These are primitive notions that will be replaced by something more sophisticated. — Nathan Seiberg Copy Share Image
In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive… — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
An Englishman, methinks,--not to speak of other European nations,--habitually regards himself merely as a constituent part of theEnglish nation; he is a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of Abraham will… — Jeff Schweitzer Copy Share Image
The fact that we have not yet found the slightest evidence for life - much less intelligence - beyond this Earth does… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Wherever primitive man put up a word, he believed he had made a discovery. How utterly mistaken he really was! He had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As there must be moderation in other things, so there must be moderation in self-criticism. Perpetual contemplation of our own actions produces… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“Simpson, the student of divinity, it was who arranged his conclusions probably with the best, though not most scientific, appearance of order.… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
The Navajo, for example, regard their traditional lands as within the four sacred peaks. One of those sacred peaks is the San… — Robert A. Williams, Jr Copy Share Image
“As I, my real self, grew older, I entered more and more into the substance of my dreams. One may dream, and… — Jack London Copy Share Image
[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style: to return… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
In our prehistoric past, we would have lived in extended families, surrounded by kin whose interests we might have wanted to promote… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Now if you will stop here and ask yourself why you are not as pious as the primitive Christians were, your own… — William Law Copy Share Image
If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“What's it mean; are you determined To make modern all mankind? If so, you should be be-sermoned And brought back to healthy… — Charles C. Abbott Copy Share Image
Here we stand in the middle of this new world with our primitive brain, attuned to the simple cave life, with terrific… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
The human race is doomed to sink back farther and farther into the primitive night ere again it begins its bloody climb… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I learned the hard way how desperately primitive is the technology we have for monitoring the health of someone with a chronic… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
In its evolution from a more primitive nervous system, the brain, as an organ with ten or more billion neurons and many… — Stanislaw Ulam Copy Share Image
I do not see any essential difference between abstract and primitive art. Both are simple and sincere. Naturally, we should not generalize… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“Ah, I see. You don't know much about us and the unknown equals the barbaric, the primitive. Although it is you lot… — Andrew Ashling Copy Share Image
It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The United Nations represents not a final stage in the development of world order, but only a primitive stage. Therefore its primary… — John Foster Dulles Copy Share Image
The medieval hall house was very primitive when it became the characteristic form of dwelling of the landowner of the Middle Ages. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
“Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and… — Hedda Hopper Copy Share Image
In my day, the drug was alcohol and the weapon was a fist, so it was very sort of innocent and primitive.… — Michael Caine Copy Share Image
Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that… — Paul D. Boyer Copy Share Image
“Primitive societies are largely free of cardiovascular disease, cancer, dental cavities, economic theories, lounge music, and other modern ailments.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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