To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a… — William James Copy Share Image
I've never been able to develop a movie over several years, and keep coming back to it and adding to it. I… — Joe Swanberg Copy Share Image
When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Love is about feeling that there is something bigger than just ourselves and our own worries and existence. Whether it is love… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Let us be clear: censorship is cowardice. ... It masks corruption. It is a school of torture: it teaches, and accustoms one… — Pablo Antonio Cuadra Copy Share Image
I saw that the kingdom must be interior before it can be exterior, that it is a kingdom of ideas, and not… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
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... continual hard labor deadens the energies of the soul, and benumbs the faculties of the mind; the ideas become confined, the… — Maria W. Stewart Copy Share Image
The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense,… — Kurt Lewin Copy Share Image
[It's] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
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Making information free is survivable so long as only limited numbers of people are disenfranchised. As much as it pains me to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
there is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap. But the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The common idea that scientists reject a theory as soon as it leads to a contradiction is just not so. When they… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
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We all want to be stars. The idea of being revered and envied must be encoded somewhere deep in our DNA. So… — Tonya Hurley Copy Share Image
I had this idea for a long time to make a film about a poet in Paterson named Patterson. I wanted him… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
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The idea was that those who direct the overall conspiracy could use the differences in those two so-called ideologies [Marxism/fascism/socialism v. democracy/capitalism]… — Myron Coureval Fagan Copy Share Image
It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
An actor can do a play on Broadway for three years. Every night he's expressing the same emotion in exactly the same… — Richard Estes Copy Share Image
I suppose even Dictators have their chummy moments, when they put their feet up and relax with the boys, but it was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure -… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
As long as there's a place for sundials and gardening and beautiful things, there's a place for the harpsichord. I completely reject… — Mahan Esfahani Copy Share Image
Trust and respect are two-way streets. We want the horse to accept us as leaders of the herd, to guide them safely… — Walter Zettl Copy Share Image
I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere… — Jean-Luc Godard Copy Share Image
Listen to me: Life is not about principles; it's about happiness.' 'But if you don't have any principles, and if you don't… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
There is a fundamental difference between the Jewish idea of creation and that of Islam. The creation according to Islam is not… — Aga Khan III Copy Share Image
To the extent that President Trump means strengthened border security, I am fully in favor of the idea that the rule of… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say 'Eat the biggest crabs first, that way you're always eating the biggest crabs.' In making a TV… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image
I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush.… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Gwen smiled. "Hardly. Bedraggled is being in the full throes of nicotine withdrawal, and after a week on a bus with a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
We're actually trying to develop an iPhone app, now that the Droid is out, we'll do it for that as well, if… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
The funny thing about good people—people like Daneca—is that they really honestly don’t get the impulse toward evil. They have an incredibly… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
On the one hand, rock is so predictable, but at the same time, the basic idea that an artist can cut through… — Casey Spooner Copy Share Image
A huge amount of what feminists are fighting for would have major positive impact for men as well as women. Take the… — Laura Bates Copy Share Image
Our interpretations through the years and generations have always changed, but the emotions, ideas, and the thoughts of the composers are still… — David Finckel Copy Share Image