Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Every government on earth is the personification of violence and force, and yet the doctine of non-resistance is as old as human… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The flame will cool tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow.... But someone must see this already today, and speak heretically today about… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years.… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
When to the Permanent is sacrificed the Mutable, the prize is thine: the drop returneth whence it came. The Open Path leads… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The lessons of religious toleration - a toleration which recognizes complete liberty of human thought, liberty of conscience - is one which,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the… — Charles Fort Copy Share Image
Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the… — Ted Nelson Copy Share Image
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
What a frightful weapon is human thought! It is our defense and our safeguard, the most precious gift that God has made… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The Christian cannot be satisfied so long as any human activity is either opposed to Christianity or out of connection with Christianity.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Almost all the progress ever made in human thought has been made by the Doubting Thomas's, the questioners, the challengers, the show-me… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
It is not the world that is absurd, nor human thought: the absurd arises when the human need to understand meets the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“We must not listen to those who advise us "being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts,"… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
