There's a natural tendency for children to, in some sense, inherit the cultural values of their parents. I'm not against that, that's… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I just would like to say that over more than a quarter-century as a scientist and a believer, I find absolutely nothing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
We will learn no matter what! Learning is as natural as rest or play. With or without books, inspiring trainers or classrooms,… — Malcolm Knowles Copy Share Image
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If it is possible to have a linear unit that depends on no other quantity, it would seem natural to prefer it.… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
“The only distinct meaning of the word 'natural' is STATED, FIXED or SETTLED; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man has sought to take from the natural world not only that which is necessary for his stability and survival, but often… — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople Copy Share Image
Ever since Freud, being alone has been considered something of a psychological failure. The point, according to Freudian theory, is to be… — Alix Kates Shulman Copy Share Image
The century would seek to dominate nature as it had never been dominated, would attack the idea of war, poverty and natural… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
I think The New Yorker's cartoons aren't very political because the people who do the cartoons aren't awfully political people, and they… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Does man's freedom consist in revolting against all laws? We say no, in so far as laws are natural, economic, and social… — Mikhail Bakunin Copy Share Image
We have a mind, but we are the consciousness within the body and mind. I'm in my body but I am the… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
The result is that a generation of physicists is growing up who have never exercised any particular degree of individual initiative, who… — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
There is a natural rhythm to the active and receptive energies within us. At times our energy is strong and outgoing -… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
The natural principle of sowing and reaping is always at work. Whatever you plant , whether physical, spiritual, mental, financial, relational, or… — Paul J. Meyer Copy Share Image
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are… — Simon Winchester Copy Share Image
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett,… — Barry Diller Copy Share Image
All men are equal and free: society by nature, and destination, is therefore autonomous and ungovernable. If the sphere of activity of… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Copy Share Image
Jay Harman is the quintessential biomimic, a principled inventor who sees solutions everywhere he looks in the natural world. And he looks… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
There is nothing that does not have something perfect in it; and it is the happiness of good taste to be able… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Natural selection shaped the human brain to be drawn toward aspects of nature that enhance our survival and reproduction, like verdant landscapes… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
In order to achieve something, in competition with the powerful and smartly wielded influence of corporations, we need to join forces and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Haagen-Dazs (a clever Scandi-sounding name invented by Americans in 1961) was bought for its Euro-sounding sophistication by the kind of Americans who… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
First time I saw an alligator gar I damn near threw up. They ain't natural anything get that big. It's ten feet… — Bukka White Copy Share Image
All European tradition, Marxism included, has conspired to defy the natural order of all things. Mother Earth has been abused, the powers… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a… — Plato Copy Share Image
Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
There is a broad distinction between religion and theology. The one is a natural, human experience common to all well-organized minds. The… — Lucretia Mott Copy Share Image
Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an… — Jamie Durie Copy Share Image
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It’s a most natural way for me. I can tell people I can run in a saree and I can do five… — Vidya Balan Copy Share Image
“... as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it… — Plato Copy Share Image