The worry that unreflective belief acquisition may be unreliable, after all, applies equally to reflective belief acquisition: it too may be unreliable.… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
“Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life’s secrets. It’s the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers.… — Kay Larson Copy Share Image
I will choose what enters me, what becomes flesh of my flesh. Without choice, no politics, no ethics lives. I am not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I am such a person of words. I've spent so much of my life trying to get it right, say it right,… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
The Buddha taught that suffering is the extra pain in the mind that happens when we feel an anguished imperative to have… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're as a filmmaker really just opening the door for people… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
I view Bitcoin as the more democratic version of money and value transfer because no one controls it... I expect the Internet… — Olaf Carlson-Wee Copy Share Image
The similarities between street drug abuse and psychotropic prescription drug use are disturbing. Both types are toxic. Both can cause psychosis, damage… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In trouble we are prone to forget all that we have heard and read that makes for our comfort. Now what is… — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
A jargon form'd from the lost language, wit, Confounded in that Babel of the pit; Form'd by diseased conceptions, weak and wild,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
“I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
. . . if you close your eyes and begin to feel your breath, it will instantly become deeper and slower, and… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
All important persons have about them someone in a subordinate position who has their ear. These dependents are very susceptible to slights,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Avarice is a uniform and tractable vice; other intellectual distempers are different in different constitutions of mind. That which soothes the pride… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every day, no matter what is happening around me, I consciously try to discipline my own feelings and my mind about what… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind… — George Lois Copy Share Image
I have always been slightly suspicious of the theory of evolution because of its ability to account for any property of living… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
By God and upon my conscience, said the devil, I never observed it, for my mind is occupied with so many different… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spectacle of modern investment markets has sometimes moved me towards the conclusion that to make the purchase of an investment permanent… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think the way my modeling career took off, I did not expect. It was definitely not a ripple in my mind.… — Cara Delevingne Copy Share Image
“Every single human being is neurologically predisposed to be biased in various walks of life. It is biologically impossible to be absolutely… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“This is where you first failed us. You gave us minds and told us not to think. You gave us curiosity and… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
I don't believe complete assimilation is possible, at least not for anyone who has an active, open mind. Every step, every entry… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
[The American public demands] a sense of legitimacy from and in the presidency. There is more to this than dignity, more than… — James David Barber Copy Share Image
“What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces… — Tyler Hamilton Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that you can use your beauty and use your charm and be flirtatious, and you can… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
For the mind is capable of dealing with only one kind of food; it lives, grows and is nourished upon ideas only;… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous… — Lionel Barrymore Copy Share Image
Several elements of the ADD mind favor creativity…As mentioned earlier, the term 'attention deficit' is a misnomer. It is a matter of… — Edward Hallowell Copy Share Image
I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial that advertised an exercise machine.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Those were the things on my mind [stay healthy, take care of my kids and reestablish a relationship with the people], not… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The fact is that when you are in a clean, clear state of mind you will be free to pay full attention… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image