My high school guidance counselor, Mrs. Inverholl, once had me take an aptitude test to figure out my future. The number one… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In studying mathematics or simply using a mathematical principle, if we get the wrong answer in sort of algebraic equation, we do… — Eric Butterworth Copy Share Image
Wine to me is something that brings people together. Wine does promote conversation and promote civility, but it's also fascinating. It's the… — Robert M. Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
[Jay] Gould sets up an artificial wall between the two worldviews that doesn't exist in my life. Because I do believe in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch is a wise, humane, and delightful study of what some regard as the best novel in… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Well, I kind of split my life into two pieces. One was where my chess career lies. There, I kept my sanity,… — Bobby Fischer Copy Share Image
Pastoureau combines a charming, conversational tone with a haughtiness I found entirely endearing. A director of studies at the Ecole Pratique des… — Sebastian Smee Copy Share Image
I would like to suggest that our minds are swamped by too much study and by too much matter just as plants… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Many people nowadays who discover that they have a major symptom, whether psychological or physical, begin to study it. They get drawn… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
I read a lot of studies about the fact that there is a bias in the way health care is doled out,… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
First, what is a revolution? Sometimes I'm inclined to believe that many of our people are using this word "revolution" loosely, without… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The way I reacted to 9/11 was I decided I didn't want to do any movies that are sad or critical. I… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
I don't know if one's more typecasting than the other, or what I am more like. But I know that the high… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
I noticed the drama majors on campus when I was at Notre Dame. They just seemed to be freer spirits than the… — Catherine Hicks Copy Share Image
I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I… — Julio Cortazar Copy Share Image
My first job in Brazil was actually to develop a way to improve the readability of billboards, and based on speed, angle… — Vik Muniz Copy Share Image
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith… — George F. Kennan Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Whoever is to acquire a competent knowledge of medicine, ought to be possessed of the following advantages: a natural disposition; instructionl a… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
We can study the whole history of salvation, we can study the whole of Theology, but without the Spirit we cannot understand.… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In a cross-cultural study of 173 societies (by Herbert Barry and L. M. Paxson of the University of Pittsburgh) 76 societies typically… — Melvin Konner Copy Share Image
Given the way universities work to reinforce and perpetuate the status quo, the way knowledge is offered as commodity, Women's Studies can… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The problem is fundamental... It is as if a secret committee, now lost to history, has made a study of children and,… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
I guess the biggest difference between me and many of today's female graduate students is that a lot of them were raised… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
The study of Zen is the study of energy, power, knowledge and balance. It is the science of energy conservation and control.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Various studies indicate that with age people gain more wisdom about life and are somehow happier than younger people. This is especially… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
After two years of undergraduate study, it was clear that I was bored by the regime of problem-solving required by the Cambridge… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Americans have become conditioned to believe the world is a gray place without absolutes; this is because we’re simultaneously cowardly and arrogant.… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
But countless studies have shown that a cue and a reward, on their own, aren't enough for a new habit to last.… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
I had NO interest in being a theologian, especially not a Christian, as I had been raised by progressive atheists. We bowed… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When at the typewriter I am no longer where I site but am away across the mountains, in ancient cities or on… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I… — Chiwetel Ejiofor Copy Share Image
There are many theories about the best way to remove excess carbon from the atmosphere - some are ludicrous, others are at… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
Nosology (from the Greek 'nosos,' meaning 'disease,' and 'logos,' referring to 'study') is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not… — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, thinkers from groups for whom whiteness was and is a problem have taken the lead in studying whiteness in this… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
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