When people insist, as so many of them do, that of course we'll overcome the limits to growth and every other obstacle… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
The real problem, both in discussions of mass shootings and in discussions of gun control, is that too many people are too… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Have you ever rightly considered what the mere ability to read means? That it is the key which admits us to the… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always fond of visiting new scenes, and observing strange characters and manners. Even when a mere child I began my… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Optimism and pessimism are mere matters of optics, of how you look at things, and that can change from day to day,… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
Great teachers and schools expect and nurture quality work and quality performance. Great teachers inspire and demand quality, ever urging their students… — Oliver DeMille Copy Share Image
Women are mere "beauties" in men's culture so that culture can be kept male. When women in culture show character, they are… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
serene illumination, or just sitting, is not a technique, or a means to some resulting higher state of consciousness, or any particular… — John Daido Loori Copy Share Image
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he… — Bernardino Ramazzini Copy Share Image
I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Neither in tailoring nor in legislating does man proceed by mere accident. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There is sufficient reward in the mere consciousness of a good action. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Education to independence demands that young people should be accustomed early to consult their own sense of propriety and their own reason.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
It is not just disposable income but whether people feel good about their immediate future that drives sales. It is this feel-good… — Johann Rupert Copy Share Image
Independently of its misdeeds, the mere power, - the bare existence of such a power, - is a thing irreconcilable with the… — Nicholas Trist Copy Share Image
Grace is not looking for good men whom it may approve, for it is not grace but mere justice to approve goodness.… — C. I. Scofield Copy Share Image
Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
You ask about my opinion on vivisection. I quite agree that it is justifiable for real investigations on physiology; but not for… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The world is waiting for men with vision - it is not interested in mere pictures. — Charles Webster Hawthorne Copy Share Image
