Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of… — Abraham Flexner Copy Share Image
As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song, that it… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Many applications of the coincidence method will therefore be found in the large field of nuclear physics, and we can say without… — Walther Bothe Copy Share Image
I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of teaching have not yet entirely strangled that sacred spirit of curiosity… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's no secret that the Democrat Party considers the American military to be the focus of evil in the modern world. So… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
what sets wilderness apart in the modern day is not that it's dangerous (it's almost certainly safer than any town or road)… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society,… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
The process of socialization is nowhere near complete at age five or six, when modern children start spending up to half their… — Quinn Cummings Copy Share Image
The heyday perhaps of American public infrastructure is the Sputnik moment of the 1950s, the [Dwaight] Eisenhower administration, for instance, which rolls… — Judy Woodruff Copy Share Image
Noise is the number one problem in modern offices. A big part of addressing this issue is making sure unwanted sound from… — Julian Treasure Copy Share Image
I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life… — Drake Bell Copy Share Image
Bumble really sets the stage for an empowered and modern way to connect, which educated and forward-thinking groups of people have really… — Whitney Wolfe Herd Copy Share Image
Clever modern man is so witless that he thinks moral silence and empty conscience are an advantage. — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Another thing he told his customers was that one of the great accounting unknowns of the modern age was how to value… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
The first organization structure in the modern West was laid down in the canon law of the Catholic Church eight hundred years… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and… — Henry George Copy Share Image
There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
A $10 million windfall? At today's prices, I'd feel almost as rich as I did one day in 1936 when I found… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
“I do regard modern universities to be biologically toxic environments for healthy students.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The great majority of modern third-person narration is "I" narration very thinly disguised. — John Fowles Copy Share Image
A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Fixing obesity is going to require a change in our modern relationship with food. I'm hopeful that we begin to see a… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
Modern research has shown that your eye-brain system is thousands of times more complex and powerful than had previously been estimated, and… — Tony Buzan Copy Share Image
Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Only uncomfortable chairs become antiques - the comfortable ones are worn out by hard use. — Jacob Braude Copy Share Image
A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we… — Robert Orben Copy Share Image
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We didn't make the first mp3, smartphone, or tablet. But you can say we made the first modern mp3, smartphone, and tablet.… — Tim Cook Copy Share Image
Modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical. As… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
Resort to science has rendered modern war so destructive of life and property that it presents a new problem to mankind, such,… — John Hessin Clarke Copy Share Image
Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is… — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
I do a lot of urban fantasy, which is modern-day cities, but you've got magic, you've got fairies running around, or cryptozoological… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image