The human mind is indeed a cave swarming with strange forms of life, most of them unconscious and unilluminated. Unless we can… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
Don't you think I have sense enough to worry about my motives for saying the prayer? That's exactly what's bothering me so.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority… — James Madison Copy Share Image
There is an institutional cynicism that causes reporters to question everything the President says, and the motives of everything the President and… — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
But, gee," the other nurse says, "what on earth would MAKE a man want to do something like disrupt the ward for,… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian objectivity (and total purity of motive), I am absolved of… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in… — Kenneth E. Iverson Copy Share Image
Tis impossible to judge with much Præcision of the true Motives and Qualities of human Actions, or of the Propriety of Rules… — John Adams Copy Share Image
It is possible to work across the aisle in Washington, but it's hard. And I think it's been made worse by the… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
Ardent desire for knowledge, in fact, is the one motive attracting and supporting investigators in their efforts; and just this knowledge, really… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“terms of those who loved her. She paid back their love with—well, with what? Malice? Not proven. Hate? Not proven. With the… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
When we think of a criminal, we imagine someone with criminal motives. And when we look at Eichmann, he doesn't actually have… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Any attention to them (terrorists) on the part of the media, any double-standard interpretation of their motives and results of their activity… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Money destroys human roots wherever it is able to penetrate, by turning desire for gain into the sole motive. It easily manages… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
I know that sometimes people fake on each other out of genuine motives to hold onto the object of their tenderest feelings.… — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many more… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
Meditation without selfless giving is not enough. You may go into very high states of consciousness but the rough edges will still… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If Trump does not start seeing things through an ideological prism, he will never understand the method, the motive, and the how… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The ruthless economic exploitation and political oppression of the peasants by the landlord class forced them into numerous uprisings against its rule…… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I really think of my motives, my melodies, my harmonies, as being these things that are very much alive. They have these… — Missy Mazzoli Copy Share Image
In a thousand voices singing the Hallelujah Chorus in Handel's "Messiah," it is possible to distinguish the leading voices, but the differences… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shall soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shall often meet with… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on us by every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions… — Richard Brookhiser Copy Share Image
A good working definition of fanaticism is that you are so convinced of your views and policies that you are sure that… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
One of the great tragedies we witness almost daily is the tragedy of men of high aim and low achievement. Their motives… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Living apart and at peace with myself,I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine.… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Honesty has a beautiful and refreshing simplicity about it. No ulterior motives. No hidden meanings. An absence of hypocrisy, duplicity, political games,… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
One of the most arrogant undertakings, to my mind, is to write the biography of a man which pretends to go beyond… — Theodor Haecker Copy Share Image
My books are love stories at core, really. But I am interested in manifestations of love beyond the traditional romantic notion. In… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
