I’ve learnt from experience that a painting isn’t finished when you put down your brush - that’s when it starts. The public… — Banksy Copy Share Image
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
There can be no argument about the Lone Star State's significant contributions to American history, and we must remember the actions and… — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
The whole argument with the anti-suffragists, or even the critical suffragist man, is this: that you can govern human beings without their… — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
I love being married. It's great. But I hate arguing. I hate fighting. You know what I do now? When we get… — Louis C. K Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, I tend to think that whether a philosopher's views are true is a poor test of their quality. What matter… — Richard F. Heck Copy Share Image
One of the arguments here at OLPC is, if 100 million kids could have an Asus running Windows, is that better with… — Nicholas Negroponte Copy Share Image
Art is always at peril in universities, where there are so many people, young and old, who love art less than argument,… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
Tendulkar can now rightly lay claim to the title of being the greatest batsman in cricket history. And if some people argue… — Rashid Latif Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
For 40 years, my argument has been that democratizing ownership of wealth has been the key to egalitarian society and the goals… — Gar Alperovitz Copy Share Image
“Behind Nat someone chuckled. Nat turned. Dr. Bentley was looking at him with a twinkle. "Is this a political argument?" Nat shrugged.… — Jean Lee Latham Copy Share Image
Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived… — William James Copy Share Image
The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
I rely heavily on Thomas Sowell's magnificent book, Black Rednecks, White Liberals. He points out that blacks in the North perform better,… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The only real argument against the Bible is an unholy life. When a man argues against the Word of God, follow him… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Most arguments for instituting or raising a minimum wage are based on fairness and redistribution. Even if workers are getting a competitive… — Christina Romer Copy Share Image
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Those who direct the maximum force of their desires toward the center, toward true being, toward perfection, seem quieter than the passionate… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In fact, the libertarian would reason that the fact that human nature is a mixture of both good and evil provides its… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
“It is enough to write a few lines about tanks in the streets in some sad country, about a clear injustice, which… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For… — Ibn Arabi Copy Share Image
In matters of great concern, and which must be done, there is no surer argument of a weak mind than irresolution; to… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments… — Louis Finkelstein Copy Share Image
The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
In general, I think every novel is a political novel, in that every novel is an argument about how the world works,… — Micah Perks Copy Share Image
The world is split into two kinds of people, those who would go out for a drink with John Lennon, and those… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Obama! He's now increased the debt more in three years than George W. Bush did his entire eight year presidency.… — Frank J. Fleming Copy Share Image