Carl Becker has defined a professor as a man who thinks otherwise; a scholar is a man who otherwise thinks. — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the… — John O. Brennan Copy Share Image
China cannot pull in the best and brightest from all over the world. It's an ethnically defined nation, the opposite of an… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
If we are willing to act violently in pursuit of a peripheral interest, everyone can be certain that, when a vital interest… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts. — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad… — Dallas Clayton Copy Share Image
Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of… — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Electrical force is defined as something which causes motion of electrical charge; an electrical charge is something which exerts electric force. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I believe that there is an important part of every human being that is defined in terms of their significant other: how… — Angeles Mastretta Copy Share Image
Leadership can't be claimed like luggage at the airport. Leadership can't be inherited, even though you may inherit a leadership position. And… — David Cottrell Copy Share Image
In an essay 10 years ago, I pointed out that it is utterly logical for polygamy rights to follow gay rights. After… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I… — Dan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Leadership is defined not by the position you hold but by the people who follow you. — Charlene Li Copy Share Image
Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That… — Dallas Willard Copy Share Image
New Jersey is to New York what Santo Domingo is to the United States. I always felt that those two landscapes, not… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
It is important that an aim never be defined in terms of activity or methods. It must always relate directly to how… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
International arbitration may be defined as the substitution of many burning questions for a smoldering one — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The strategic stimulus to economic development in Schumpeter's analysis is innovation, defined as the commercial or industrial application of something new---a new… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
From 1970 onwards, our culture told both sexes that individual expression was paramount. And for women, that was defined as the right… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
Culture is defined, really, by the artists who record what the everyday experience is like and then translate it to a common… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
In my day, MI6 - which I called the Circus in the books - stank of wartime nostalgia. People were defined by… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
