I am sometimes perplexed by people who refer to defensive rifles, or defensive rifle shooting. The defensive arm is the pistol, since… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
It is true that my discovery of LSD was a chance discovery, but it was the outcome of planned experiments and these… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
People must not only hear about the kingdom of GOD, but must see it in actual operation, on a small scale perhaps… — Pandita Ramabai Copy Share Image
I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I cannot claim to thoroughly enjoy coaching, because it is very hard work if you are even moderately conscientious. Nevertheless it does… — Nigel Short Copy Share Image
Every photograph is a realization of one of the possibilities contained within the program of the camera. The number of such possibilities… — Douglas Huebler Copy Share Image
Ubuntu is not a biblical concept but an ancient African one. Nevertheless it falls back on one simple thing: that humans have… — Allan Boesak Copy Share Image
We cannot judge fully of men's works by what we see, or what is said and thought of them; for man is… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit its grace by the length… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge.… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Notice that tearing oneself out of the insensible state is the opposite of remaining in it; the man who is beneficent from… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
A typical mathematician does not actively try to be useful. Individual mathematicians are motivated primarily by a subtle mixture of ambition and… — Timothy Gowers Copy Share Image
Illness is something out of balance, rather than something within balance. It's been something that is created and it's been created for… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, whether in occurrences lasting days, hours or mere minutes at a time, I have experienced happiness often, and have had brief… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
On earth we have nothing to do with success or with results, but only with being true to God, and for God;… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips:… — Saint Ambrose Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a metafictional writer at all. I think of myself as a classic writer, a realist writer,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Although my knowledge grows more and more, nevertheless I do not for that reason believe that it can ever be actually infinite,… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria that are thermophilic and can survive at the steam vent heat that would otherwise produce,… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
Every medium by which people communicate can be subject to exploitation by those with illegal intentions. Nevertheless, this is no reason to… — John Ashcroft Copy Share Image
Tolerance can be exercised only by those who have well-grounded convictions (although it will not always be exercised even by them). For… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then… — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The 'public' is a phantom, the phantom of an opinion supposed to exist in a vast number of persons who have no… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
Man feels the urge to run up against the limits of language. Think for example of the astonishment that anything at all… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
Since God is the end of man, since he has created us to be perfect and happy in him, it is manifest… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
Most illegal immigrants are not by nature lawbreakers. Most are looking for the chance to live in dignity. Nevertheless we must continue… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I was educated privately for free because I was a scholarship girl, 100% scholarship girl. I got it on my own merits.… — Louise Mensch Copy Share Image
Evolutionary theory tends to explain quite well in retrospect how various species emerged. It's not very good on prediction. Nevertheless, one cannot… — Kenneth Arrow Copy Share Image
Once you start backing into all of that, then you see this incredibly intricate, totally wrong-headed way to do things, but nevertheless… — Jonathon Keats Copy Share Image
Pluralism and tolerance are pillars of modern society. That has to be accepted. But pluralism doesn't just mean diversity. It means that… — Bassam Tibi Copy Share Image
Going to places like Honduras, Nicaragua, and various African countries you get to see very clearly what the cause and effect is.… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless,… — Charles Edison Copy Share Image