Science and technology have amplified the effects of the dysfunction of the human mind in its unawakened state to such a degree… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If a man attains a high station in life, it is because he has acquired or was blessed with native ability as… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Admitting that it is the profession of our sex to teach, we perceive the mother to be first in point of precedence,… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to… — Chauncey Wright Copy Share Image
If people who have to work together in an enterprise trust one another it is because they are all operating to a… — Francis Fukuyama Copy Share Image
Men's thoughts and opinions are in a great degree vassals of him who invents a new phrase or re-applies an old epithet.… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
It's difficult to get a job and people stay in school longer because they're employed as teaching assistants or instructors by their… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your… — Michael J. Fox Copy Share Image
I have a degree in cinema studies and the big paper I wrote at the end of that was about Judy Garland… — Karina Longworth Copy Share Image
Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I didn't get to college until my 20s, because I was a young father on welfare and had to take all kind… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
When I was 12 or 13, I started to watch films and understand more about the craft and that helped me to… — Yasmin Paige Copy Share Image
I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And… — Julianna Margulies Copy Share Image
The more progress physical sciences make, the more they tend to enter the domain of mathematics, which is a kind of centre… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
I discover that I am thinking about a play, which is the first awareness I have that a new play is forming.… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Love at first sight is only realizing an imagination that has always haunted us; or meeting with a face, a figure, or… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
[T]he Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost [are] three ... not in condition, but in degree; not in substance, but in… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading… — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
What I know is that if I was asked to teach mathematics in French for a week to young kids, I would… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
In a hospital, there's not anyone who's generally trying to do you harm. You're generally given a backstory about what happened to… — Brendan Fehr Copy Share Image
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The state does not demand justice of its members, but thinks that it succeeds very well with the least degree of it,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Knowledge can be heady stuff, but it easily leads to an excess of zeal! -- to illusions of grandeur and a desire… — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
I never really had a real career trajectory idea. I just like a lot of different kind of movies, I wanna make… — David Gordon Green Copy Share Image
I kinda liked ol' Shakespeare and them guys, you know. I went back and got my master's just in case. I thought,… — Phil Robertson Copy Share Image
If my soccer career were over, I would still come here because of the people. And despite the fact I've had to… — Lorrie Fair Copy Share Image
So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The playing field is more sacred than the stock exchange, more blessed than Capital Hill or the vaults of Fort Knox. The… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is important to a degree… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Every man, however obscure, however far removed from the general recognition, is one of a group of men impressible for good, and… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Whenever you speak to someone, you are presuming the two of you have a certain degree of familiarity - which your words… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I feel strongly that degrees are really valuable to people, and having MOOCs allow for credit down the line will increase the… — Daphne Koller Copy Share Image