Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new… — William James Copy Share Image
I grew up to be indifferent to the distinction between literature and science, which in my teens were simply two languages for… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I get out my work and have a show for myself before I have it publicly. I make up my own mind… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
Liberty, according to my metaphysics, is an intellectual quality, an attribute that belongs not to fate nor chance. Neither possesses it, neither… — John Adams Copy Share Image
We are the offspring of history, and must establish our own paths in this most diverse and interesting of conceivable universes—one indifferent… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It was the Faith which gradually and indirectly transformed the slave into the serf, and the serf into the free peasant. .… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Homesickness is not always a vague, nostalgic, almost beautiful emotion, although that is somehow the way we always seem to picture it… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
We are often indifferent to our brethren who are distressed or upset, on the grounds that they are in this state through… — John Cassian Copy Share Image
What I have in mind is that art may be bad, good or indifferent, but, whatever adjective is used, we must call… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
There are no boundaries in this struggle to the death. We cannot be indifferent to what happens anywhere in the world, for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
I caution you as I was never cautioned: You will never let go, you will never be satiated. You will be damaged… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely, never allowing their… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Copy Share Image
She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances.… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if were indifferent to whether we win or lose? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The ordinary politician has a very low estimate of human nature. In his daily life he comes into contact chiefly with persons… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
...the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, 'truth' increases in scope and quantity - via science… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image