It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the dime stores and bus stations People talk of situations Read books, repeat quotations Draw conclusions on the wall Some speak… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . .by… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. Life asks of us the same thing we have been asked in… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I've sworn off agnosticism, which I now call cowardly atheism. I've come to the position that in the complete absence of any… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the… — William J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I gloomily came to the ironic conclusion that if you take a highly intelligent person and give them the best possible, elite… — Halton Arp Copy Share Image
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The man who is wantonly profuse of his promises ought to sink his credit as much as a tradesman would by uttering… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
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There is no scientific theory that could lead us from a detailed map of every single neuron in someone's brain to a… — Stuart J. Russell Copy Share Image
I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Mr. Franzen said he and Mr. Wallace, over years of letters and conversations about the ethical role of the novelist, had come… — Jonathan Franzen Copy Share Image
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“I put complains aside and replace each of them with trials and to my surprise, some things I see as difficult were… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
Buddhist epistemologists do argue that rational analysis leads to the conclusion that rational analysis cannot give us infallible access to truth, including… — Jay L. Garfield Copy Share Image
It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
I would not draw definitive conclusions from that. If we look at South and North Korea, it is pretty hard to believe… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests"… — Alfonso Garcia Robles Copy Share Image
Something always went wrong, and the relationship would end precisely at the moment when she was sure that this was the person… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Everybody who has dealt with China over an extended period of time has come to more or less the same conclusions. There… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
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The way the electoral college works, the way the states have kind of sorted themselves out in such a way that most… — Frank Bruni Copy Share Image
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After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Even when you expose something, when you have a true believer, that person rejects that proof; he thinks it's just a set-up.… — Rodrigo Cortes Copy Share Image
Roaming the world as a foreign correspondent for more than a decade, I was able to observe how a variety of vastly… — Louis Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
After more than 700 hours of studying this subject, and thoroughly investigating its foundation, I have come to the conclusion that the… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
As a Jew reading about Jesus, I thought, 'He's a pretty good guy.' It's the same conclusion Monty Python drew in 'Life… — David Javerbaum Copy Share Image
The speaker tentatively reaches out with that feeling and realizes that it's kind of absurd, or at least a dangerous consolation, which… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we… — Kim Do-Jin Copy Share Image
The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image