Horror gives place to wonder at your true account; The…

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

— Henry David Thoreau

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account…

— Denise Lewis

“I say his version because there is no such thing as a true account of anything. Each sees the world from his own vantage…

— Gore Vidal

“There are many hostelries in his report, which is the true account of an expedition.”

— Claudio Magris

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

— Gore Vidal

The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models…

— Alexander Tsiaras

I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and…

— Aleister Crowley

There are thus two tasks for the Mass Media division of Unesco, the one general, the other special. The special one is to enlist…

— Julian Huxley

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those…

— Paulo Freire

Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be…

— George Bernard Shaw

In all our academies we attempt far too much. ... In earlier times lectures were delivered upon chemistry and botany as branches of medicine,…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent…

— Enoch Powell

“Under ordinary circumstances, we learn to speak before we learn to read, and anyone who has tried to learn a foreign language knows that…

— Kory Stamper

We are living at a time where a handful of people have wealth beyond comprehension - huge yachts, jet planes, tens of billions of…

— Bernie Sanders

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use…

— Isaac Asimov