It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
...it is quite obvious that the temperature change during the last 100 years or so includes significant natural changes, both the linear… — Syun-Ichi Akasofu Copy Share Image
“Of all the things I found puzzling about Sam, this one was always the most puzzling: his sudden, self-deprecating mood swings... Was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
The most puzzling development in politics during the last decade is the apparent determination of Western European leaders to re-create the Soviet… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
One of the most puzzling things about a novel is that "the way it really was" half the time is, and half… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Despite tantalizing suggestions of fossilized microbes in meteorites, puzzling and possibly biogenic methane gas in the martian atmosphere, and a long-standing controversy… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am puzzling over something for months and months and the poem gets created in small bursts and rewritten a hundred… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Most investors are pretty smart. Yet most investors also remain heavily invested in actively managed stock funds. This is puzzling. The temptation,… — Jonathan Clements Copy Share Image
There is nothing puzzling ... about America's gratuitously aggressive foreign policy or about the oligarchs' successful efforts to drag the Republic into… — Walter Karp Copy Share Image
It's a wonderful thing to be able to create your own world whenever you want to. Writing is very pleasurable, very seductive,… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't… — Sarah Louise Delany Copy Share Image
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I've wondered why it took us so long to catch on. We saw it, and yet we didn't see it. Or rather… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
All the dark, intricate, puzzling providences at which we were sometimes so offended...we shall [one day] see to be to us, as… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
To understand The signs that stars compose, we need depend Only on stars that are entirely there And the apparent space between… — John Hollander Copy Share Image
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace,… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Childhood is a fundamental part of all human lives, parents or not, since that's how we all start out. And yet babies… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I… — Elaine Pagels Copy Share Image
A country like Belgium, or socialist countries in central Europe spend more money on art education than the United States, which is… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Wittgenstein imagined that the philosopher was like a therapist whose task was to put problems finally to rest, and to cure us… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
There is no point in trying to remember your dreams ... There is only the unspeakable joy of eavesdropping on your spirit,… — Marsha Norman Copy Share Image
What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of… — Julius Charles Hare Copy Share Image
It is puzzling why anyone would want to (become governor of California). It's like vying to become Roseanne Barr's next husband. Sure… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe will need a strong stomach. But he will… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
It took some time before the public learned that to appreciate an Impressionist painting one has to step back a few yards,… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
Plants exist in the weather and light rays that surround them - waving in the wind, shimmering in the sunlight. I am… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
We must be careful with our lives, for Christ's sake, because it would seem that they are the only lives we are… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
We have really, that I know of, no philosophical basis for high and low. Moreover, the vegetable kingdom does not culminate, as… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“The days began to fly now, and yet each one of them was stretched by renewed expectations and swollen with silent, private… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
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