It is the disposition of the thought that altered the…

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Selectively pick a teacher, one that you respect, not just someone who can talk with wonderful poetic figures about enlightenment, but someone who has…

— Frederick Lenz

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional. Physical pain…

— Barbara

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from…

— Phyllis Bottome

Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

— Anonymous

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

— Peter Yarrow

Thousands of years of ideological, philosophical and practical decisions were made. They altered the surface of the earth, the coordinates of our souls. For…

— Arundhati Roy

Cumulatively, American society is sliding toward a new form of 'authoritarian democracy'. Elections continue, free speech is generally protected, institutions operate in accordance with…

— Richard A. Falk

[New York] is a city largely based on great skyscrapers, and they will always be the essence of New York. That won't change, just…

— Donald Trump

The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes…

— Michael Merzenich

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies.

— Ovid

“I want to know how it feels to be altered by life”

— Kate Morton

A new constitution should be more amendable. A needlessly confusing system of courts should be altered to produce an arrangement that would be simple,…

— Charles Edison

Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward…

— Warren Farrell

Technology has altered the way music sounds, how it’s composed and how we experience it. It has also flooded the world with music. The…

— David Byrne