The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Their [American banks] big issue will be if they want to deal with the biggest companies, which are doing a lot of… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
To the acquisition of the rare quality of politeness, so much of the enlightened understanding is necessary that I cannot but consider… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then ... what? What would my life be like on… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The development of our spiritual nature should concern us most. Spirituality is the highest acquisition of the soul, the divine in man;… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
We can no longer have forbidden areas of the human mind, or cultural machinery. We have taken upon ourselves the acquisition of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I think our Acompli acquisition was an interesting one, which started with a partnership and looking at their mobile e-mail app on… — Peggy Johnson Copy Share Image
We continue to have nuclear weapons relied on as a weapon of choice. If that policy were to continue, we continue to… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
Ethologists thus have an interest in looking at these capacities for the reliable acquisition of belief, and it is not surprising that… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
I mean look at all these acquisitions and mergers - WhatsApp and Oculus and et cetera. There's no way that you can… — Astra Taylor Copy Share Image
Progress, in the sense of acquisition, is something; but progress in the sense of being, is a great deal more. To grow… — James Freeman Clarke Copy Share Image
Then something fails and they're all out again, but DVD revenue is disappearing, you know, it's not disappearing but it's going off… — Eric Fellner Copy Share Image
Failure seems to be regarded as the one unpardonable crime, success as the all-redeeming virtue, the acquisition of wealth as the single… — Charles Francis Adams, Sr Copy Share Image
In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Without culture there can be no growth; without exertion, no acquisition; without friction, no polish; without labor, no knowledge; without action, no… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
And I think this is the real epiphany: the ways in which culture is distributed become profoundly more intriguing as a cultural… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I was afraid that that Catch-22 would cause VR to fail to achieve liftoff. That worry is now gone. Facebook's acquisition of… — Michael Abrash Copy Share Image
We must learn that competence is better than extravagance, that worth is better than wealth, that the golden calf we have worshiped… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
If one looks into the genealogies of many 'old families,' one discovers episodes of slave trafficking, bootlegging, gun running, opium trading, falsified… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
What becomes of a man who acquires a beautiful woman, with her "beauty" his sole target? He sabotages himself. He has gained… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
I argue is that philosophers have had a tendency to present a kind of mystical view of the powers of reflection. Unreflective… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
If the topic be highly abstract, show its nature by concrete examples. If it be unfamiliar, trace some point of analogy in… — William James Copy Share Image
The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom; to that in us which is a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from… — George Washington Copy Share Image
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do… — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
It is not easy to be at peace in today’s troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. … It can be… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image