Policy is formed by preconceptions, by long implanted biases. When information is relayed to policy-makers, they respond in terms of what is… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
The library smells like old books — a thousand leather doorways into other worlds. I hear silence, like the mind of God.… — Laura Whitcomb Copy Share Image
The nightmare of censorship has always cast a shadow over my thoughts. Both under the previous state and under the Islamic state,… — Simin Behbahani Copy Share Image
Art schools are partly the villain here. (Never mind that I teach in them.) This generation of artists is the first to… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of… — George Boole Copy Share Image
When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the… — Christmas Humphreys Copy Share Image
One of the unfortunate consequences of the intellectualization of man's spiritual life was that the word "spirit" was lost and replaced by… — Paul Tillich Copy Share Image
But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There are times when it appears impossible to look beyond what our mind has reasoned to be truth. If given complete control,… — Tina F. Snyder Copy Share Image
There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools'… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
After you've cut back everything else, food is the last to go. I didn't mind putting an extra jumper on if I… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
When you say something like, 'Well, there's a lot of visceral dislike of what our agency is doing,' I think you have… — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
“Fixed mind-set individuals dread any sort of failure because to them it’s a negative reflection on their abilities, which are immutable. Because… — Rajat Paharia Copy Share Image
I have a creative mind, so if I listen to the song, I have an idea, I thought of five or six… — Chris Brown Copy Share Image
My interest in society - at times so pronounced that the word 'snob' comes a little to mind - derives from the… — Frank Crowninshield Copy Share Image
“If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental… — Shilpa Agarwal Copy Share Image
“when you become addict in to MATERIAL things in life then the TRUE natural life start to run away from you, YES!… — Rashedur Ryan Rahman Copy Share Image
A Call for Revolution, 1993 Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected… — Karl Hess Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of how to shift the self. How to get outside the self-reflection and to just gaze with awe… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength,… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
What you learn about yourself is that you continue to see that you're selfish. It's so easy, in our Laodicean culture with… — Aaron Kampman Copy Share Image
People who have never had an ideal may hope to find one; they are in a better state than the people who… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change. Personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the… — Peter Hans Kolvenbach Copy Share Image
Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
There is no scientific antidote, only education. You've got to change the way people think. I am not interested in disarmament talks… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What people don't understand when you've already been a suicide and pulled through is that after the sadness comes fear: Where is… — Emma Forrest Copy Share Image
I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Illustrations have as much to say as the text. The trick is to say the same thing, but in a different way.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“He did not feel as if he were inside a Pillar of Darkness in the middle of Yorkshire; he felt more as… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“All men needed to hear their stories told. He was a man, but if he died without telling the story he would… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is a fixation in the human mind for structures, because in a structured life one feels secure, one knows where one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I didn't feel physically sick. But mentally. My mind was twisting in so many ways. (...) We once saw a documentary on… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“For the first time he had something to lose, and it was funny how that changed things, how it made Hawley imagine… — Hannah Tinti Copy Share Image
