The trouble is not chiefly that our universities are unfit for students but that many present-day students are unfit for universities. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Let us think only of spending the present day well. Then when tomorrow shall have come, it will be called today, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
The neglect of the humanities in present-day education is doubtless not a cause but a symptom of an age. — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The real difficulty with thousands in the present day is not that Christianity has been found wanting, but that it has never… — Henry Parry Liddon Copy Share Image
“The resulting union of idealism and love of power has led men astray over and over again, and is still doing so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The everyday issues that we witness against women in the present day will throw light on the respect women enjoyed at the… — Dalip Tahil Copy Share Image
Five hundred years before Christ some physicians of ancient India, working under the influence of the Lord Buddha, advanced the art of… — Edward Bach Copy Share Image
The difficulty seems to be, not so much that we publish unduly in view of the extent and variety of present day… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations,… — Joan D. Vinge Copy Share Image
Before I proposed to my now-wife, I was understandably nervous. My father suggested that I take stock of all of my experiences… — Justin Halpern Copy Share Image
In all the history of organized labor, from the earliest times to the present day, no body of union workingmen ever served… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If… — Anne Brontë Copy Share Image
In times of uncertainty, we tend to move away from deterministic world views. And when we try to find moral footing for… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this,… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“Intrepid sailors and fishermen navigating these heavily trafficked waters have recounted tall tales and formulated popular wisdom that persists to the present… — Laura Brooks Copy Share Image
Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“At various times during the 1950's and 1960's attempts were made by leaders in Iraq, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria to unite as… — Alistair MacLean Copy Share Image
“One of the causes of unhappiness among intellectuals in the present day is that so many of them, especially those whose skill… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The lively thought-image of foam serves to recover the premetaphysical pluralism of world-inventions postmetaphysically. It helps us to enter the element of… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
“The ancestors of the higher animals must be regarded as one-celled beings, similar to the Amoebae which at the present day occur… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
“When I sat with clients and opened my mind to them, a taste usually came through. It might be sweet, sour, salty,… — Judith Fertig Copy Share Image
“That meant that fully half of the guests at the El Dorado weren't who they were supposed to be. As a fillip… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“There are a range of useful and illuminating analyses of the media construction of organised abuse as it became front-page news in… — Michael Salter Copy Share Image
“Fist Century Christians never aspired to be "relevant" or “contemporary” with their present day culture. In fact, they resisted the secular influence… — John Paul warren Copy Share Image
“She shrugged, looking as baffled by it as he felt. "I don't know. I wonder sometimes if people even know what love… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any… — Plautus Copy Share Image
The whole evolution of present-day society tends to develop the various forms of bureaucratic oppression and to give them a sort of… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
At the present day I become a member of the Masonic order I see the wealth and power they possess the influence… — Cecil Rhodes Copy Share Image
It may happen in the next hundred years that the English novelists of the present day will come to be valued as… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
One of my central approaches to writing speculative fiction is to take an absurd situation, which we presently feel is normal, and… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
“One last unexploded mine remains, its exact location unknown and its hidden potency serving as something of a symbol of the Great… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
Truth is the first thing that present-day literature lacks. The writer has drowned himself in lies, he is too accustomed to speak… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past. [Referring… — Jean-Henri Fabre Copy Share Image