I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and… — Charles William Eliot Copy Share Image
Through the study of Zen you can learn to move from lower to higher states of mind at will. Higher states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What is in reality cowardice and faithlessness, we call charity, and consider it the part of benevolence sometimes to forgive men's evil… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
That which is required in order to the attainment of accurate conclusions respecting the essence of the Beautiful is nothing morethan earnest,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one's self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate… — Bhikkhu Analayo Copy Share Image
Not only is the statistical madness an assault on individuality, it's also one on temporality too. Statistics - even when accurate -… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I got snubbed about eight times for the Mid-Summer Classic, and I know what type of career I had, and I know… — Frank Thomas Copy Share Image
The chemists work with inaccurate and poor measuring services, but they employ very good materials. The physicists, on the other hand, use… — Wolfgang Ostwald Copy Share Image
Does sex education encourage sex? Many parents are afraid that talking about sex with their teenagers will be taken as permission for… — Benjamin Spock Copy Share Image
There is no English equivalent for the French word flâneur. Cassell's dictionary defines flâneur as a stroller, saunterer, drifter but none of… — Cornelia Otis Skinner Copy Share Image
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
One accurate way to describe abortion is subtle infanticide. That is: child-killing done in a way that the people don't recognize it… — John Piper Copy Share Image
It is much more accurate to identify the factors of production as know-how (that is genetic information structure), energy, and materials, for,… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us… — Silver RavenWolf Copy Share Image
Gravitational waves will bring us exquisitely accurate maps of black holes - maps of their space-time. Those maps will make it crystal… — Kip Thorne Copy Share Image
We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole… — Kevin Drum Copy Share Image
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
“Even the vaunted polygraph is accurate only 60 to 80 percent of the time, depending on the operator of the instrument (Ford, 1996, 230–232; Cumming, 2007).” — Joe Navarro Copy Share Image
States are violent institutions. The government of any country, including ours, represents some sort of domestic power structure, and it's usually violent.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Karl Marx left it to others to find the way beyond capitalism to a higher form of society. He saw his role… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We certainly have to improve on our performances especially up front. It's not that the strikers are not in form, as all… — Roberto Mancini Copy Share Image
It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Believers are inclined to attribute their spiritual successes to their godliness when it would be more accurate to connect them with God's… — Max Anders Copy Share Image
The designer has an obligation to provide an appropriate conceptual model for the way that the device works. It doesn't have to… — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
I really believe in trying to increase the amount of useful information in the world and in being accurate in the sense… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
It's always very daunting to play someone who actually existed. You have to honor that, and be specific and accurate and try… — Michael Shannon Copy Share Image
Many Lexington natives believe they live in a special place, one impossible to leave. I'm not so sure about that - or… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
You can film me 24 hours a day and you'll get a very accurate picture of who I am. You see the… — Lisa Vanderpump Copy Share Image
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
'Write' is almost the wrong verb for what I do. I think 'compose' is more accurate because you're trying to make the… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
The stored-program digital computer has three major attributes: it is fast, it is accurate, and it is stupid. The first two attributes… — P. J. Plauger Copy Share Image
The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I love 'Love Actually' and particularly the story with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson. I think it's possibly the best exploration of… — John Requa Copy Share Image
