The arts and sciences, in general, during the three or four last centuries, have had a regular course of progressive improvement. The… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
Scientific wealth tends to accumulate according to the law of compound interest. Every addition to knowledge of the properties of matter supplies… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love having no geography, knows no boundaries: weight and sink it deep,… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Constitutions of civil government are not to be framed upon a calculation of existing exigencies, but upon a combination of these with… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It is a common thing for people to begin to lean in the direction of recovery, only to stop and take score… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Philo of Alexandria introduced in the first century what has been described as the 'Hellenizing of the Old Testament,' or the allegorical… — Philo Copy Share Image
Cities are natural, that's why they're everywhere. It's not like there's only one city, and everybody's like 'What the f**k is this?'… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Most people don't realize that when we violate the natural order of things when we pollute the air, when we pollute the… — Cathy Hughes Copy Share Image
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next… — Tamae Watanabe Copy Share Image
For all its beauty, honesty, and effectiveness at improving the human condition, science demands a terrible price - that we accept what… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Though my heart may be left of centre, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The wise men understood that this natural world is only an image and a copy of paradise. The existence of this world… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Tell him solitude is creative if he is strong and the final decisions are made in silent rooms. Tell him to be… — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage… — Tom Hollander Copy Share Image
Right!" "Right!" "You can get there!" "I can get there!" "You're a natural at counting to two!" "I'm a nat'ral at counting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When we are mindful of every nuance of our natural world, we finally get the picture: that we are only given one… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
If men, through fear, fraud, or mistake, should in terms renounce or give up any natural right, the eternal law of reason… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
If you don’t try to stop whatever is going on in your mind, but merely observe it, eventually you’ll begin to feel… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
To any situation the reaction may be different. That's why it's useless - in a way - to memorize patterns, because the… — Vladimir Vasiliev Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because we as writers are alone so often, are so attuned to listening to the run of our own thoughts,… — Les Standiford Copy Share Image
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
To listen fully means to pay close attention to what is being said beneath the words. You listen not only to the… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
No despot ever flung forth his legions to die in foreign conquest, no privilege-ruled nation ever erupted across its borders, to lock… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
Conservatives say human beings are people who are primarily concerned with self-interest, and that's what they should be concerned with - self-interest… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal… — George Washington Copy Share Image
My perception of the human animal is as an extremely dangerous predator. That's who I perceive us to be as a species.… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
In the midst of the complexities of modern life, with all its pressures, the spirit of man needs to refresh itself by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If men lived like men indeed, their houses would be temples -- temples which we should hardly dare to injure, and in… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Earlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Why do you suppose that in the last 100 years technology has evolved a thousand times further than it has in the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
