I'm familiar with Andrei Sakharov reputation, but I don't…

I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov.

— Torsten Wiesel

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and…

— B. F. Skinner

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or…

— Eckhart Tolle

I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is…

— A. E. Housman

“Whatever the reasons, we never allow anyone else to know the whole of our personal history. I suppose we're afraid of what they might…

— Martin Edwards

I think that the best movies are made, not from a point of view that depends on your personal history, whether it's the color…

— Harrison Ford

“Closing the last chapter of our personal history and taking the first step on the Journey will come with the recognition of the futility…

— Frank M. Wanderer

The Greeks really believed in history. They believed that the past had consequences and that you might be punished for the sins of your…

— Christopher Bollen

“What I really love about them... is the fact that they contain someone's personal history...I find myself wondering about their lives. I can never…

— Isabel Wolff

“Time stretches and calms, but still we reach, for we belonged then. We want to know. Sometimes that knowledge is painful, or inconvenient, or…

— Mark Mustian

“Having contact sheets for all sorts of episodes in your life seemed to me intriguing and desirable. So much of my own history is…

— Thomas Beller

“Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and looking into the future. Ego is the deepest dream of…

— Frank M. Wanderer

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

— Siri Hustvedt

The privilege of serving my country is not only rooted in my military service, but also in my personal history. I sit here, as…

— Alexander Vindman

“When she had packed all the artifacts that made up their personal history into liquor store boxes, the house became strictly a feminine place.…

— Jodi Picoult