President Obama can talk about having no grand schemes and making no big gains, but the reality is he can't get anything… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
If we have a correct theory but merely prate about it, pigeonhole it and do not put it into practice, then that… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
It's sobering to contemplate how much time, effort, sacrifice, compromise, and attention we give to acquiring and increasing our supply of something… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
When language is used without true significance, it loses its purpose as a means of communication and becomes an end in itself. — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
The simplest rudiment of mystical experience would seem to be that deepened sense of the significance of a maxim or formula which… — William James Copy Share Image
Each person is born with an infinite power, against which no earthly force is of the slightest significance. — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“Science is an organized pursuit of triviality. Art is a casual pursuit of significance. Let's keep it in perspective.” — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a… — Louis Leakey Copy Share Image
“The true significance, then, of absolute music is that it expresses human personality at its finest moments, adequately, beautifully and spiritually, by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm the eldest of six kids, and I think that may have some significance. I think there's some correlation between maybe being… — Harry West Copy Share Image
The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all…It maybe humbling to admit there are only… — Bob Buford Copy Share Image
Life would be stunted and narrow if we could feel no significance in the world around us beyond that which can be… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
That the ulterior significance of every mode of human association lies in the contribution which it makes to the improvement of the… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Women, in general, will find it difficult to turn from a man and stop demanding that he meets their needs, provides security,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 1847, two years before the greedy rush for gold began in California, the Mormons quietly began irrigating Utah's Salt Lake Valley.… — Stuart Campbell Copy Share Image
That distant day had a significance I could not give it then. So we wheeled and came back south towards the city.… — Cecil Arthur Lewis Copy Share Image
Life is more than thought: what a man feels, and what his senses awaken in him, are more indispensable to his life's… — John Carroll Copy Share Image
I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
The potential significance of Black feminist thought goes far beyond demonstrating that African-American women can be theorists. Like Black feminist practice, which… — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
If the meaning of life has become doubtful, if one's relations to others and to oneself do not offer security, then fame… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I think it’s very important to live in the present. One of the great things that improvising teaches you is the magic… — Charlie Haden Copy Share Image
Objects and their functions no longer had any significance. All I perceived was perception itself, the hell of forms and figures devoid… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“And yet, protest it if we will, Some corner of the mind retains The medieval man, who still Keeps watch upon those… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If there is a God and all he says is true then what you do has eternal consequences. Is that significance enough… — Mike Messerli Copy Share Image
The development of space technology, including space warfare today, is similar in its technological-industrial significance to the development of navies a hundred… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...the only real significance she had attached to the memory was that it was funny what stuck with you.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters. — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
It would be something that another person had written down without understanding its significance; just a sentence or two that would be… — Jeanne DuPrau Copy Share Image
We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
The divinity of Jesus is not a dispensable extra that has no significance for our salvation. On the contrary, our salvation depends… — Klaas Runia Copy Share Image
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It's not the medium, but the quality of perception and expression, that determines the significance of art. — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the objective… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
“The investment you make in others is transferred to everyone they influence long after you’re gone. Significance” — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
The significance of something lies in its presence here and now. I don't care what it has been or what it will… — Asger Jorn Copy Share Image
The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
