You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Populism in contemporary art can become a dirty word. There is this notion that to not be understood is a reflection of… — Dario Robleto Copy Share Image
We assume whiteness is the default because whiteness, historically, has been the default. This is one of the many reasons diverse representation… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
If things are ever to move upward, some one must take the first step, and assume the risk of it. No one… — William James Copy Share Image
The fact that educated white women automatically assume that we have similar backgrounds annoys me. We don't. I feel like I'm in… — Patricia McConnell Copy Share Image
Together, the property rights and public choice schools show only that, if you start by assuming a purely individualistic model of human… — Paul Starr Copy Share Image
I'm always surprised by how many people give up before they enter the room. They buy into the hype - that there… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
There are so many stories that need to be told and are not being told. We tend to want to put things… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
To get a person's real opinion, ask what she thinks everyone else believes... If people truly hold a particular belief, they are… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
The turn of the century was the lowest point for the devastation of Indian culture by disease and persecution, and it's a… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
I meet a lot of readers who first encountered my work in school. And I can only assume there is another group… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have… — Chip Kidd Copy Share Image
In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them… — Pat Summitt Copy Share Image
As witnesses not of our intentions but of our conduct, we can be true or false, and the hypocrite's crime is that… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living.… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Civilization after civilization, it is the same. The world falls to tyranny with a whisper. The frightened are ever keen to bow… — Steven Erikson Copy Share Image
I have neither the learning nor the experience to know whether the doomsayers are right about the human causes of climate change.… — Jeremy Paxman Copy Share Image
I think it is quite dangerous for an organisation to think they can predict where they are going to need leadership. It… — Margaret J. Wheatley Copy Share Image
Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals. — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The thing that I do is that when I fail, I just keep quiet about it. I just let it go. It's… — James McBride Copy Share Image
If a person has never given writing a try, they assume that a brilliant idea is hard to come by. But really,… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
