Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
I do not believe that the present flowering of science is due in the least to a real appreciation of the beauty… — Derek Barton Copy Share Image
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[In high school] my interests outside my academic work were debating, tennis, and to a lesser extent, acting. I became intensely interested… — Allan McLeod Cormack Copy Share Image
Astronomers have a common ground for discussion with musicians in the harmony of the stars and musical concords in tetrads and triads… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio Copy Share Image
A photographer must always work with the greatest respect for his subject and in terms of his own point of view. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
What the Metaphysics of Quality would do is take this separate category, Quality, and show how it contains within itself both subjects… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Young people oppose those market-driven values and practices aimed at both creating radically individualized subjects and undermining those public spheres that create… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more unphilosophical than to be positive or dogmatical on any subject; and even if excessive scepticism could be maintained… — David Hume Copy Share Image
About no subject are poets tempted to lie so much as about their own lives. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy,… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
A spurious democracy has influenced both our research methods (I am sometimes tempted to define "validity" as part of the context of… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
I remember once asking Grandma about a book she was reading, a biography of Abraham Lincoln, and how she answered me: this… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The laws of England will protect the rights of British subjects, and give a remedy for a grievance committed by one British… — Bayley Copy Share Image
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Those of us who work in the arts know that depiction is not endorsement. If it was, no artist would be able… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
The way to do great science is to stay away from subjects that are overpopulated, and go to the frontiers. — James D. Watson Copy Share Image
I'm not strong-willed enough or unkind enough... or maybe simply not wise enough to tell a journalist that a subject is out… — James Nesbitt Copy Share Image
All intelligent problem solvers are subject to the same ultimate constraints - limitations on space, time, and materials. — Marvin Minsky Copy Share Image
I've never worked a day in my life. The joy of writing has propelled me from day to day and year to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
If a king is energetic, his subjects will be equally energetic. If he is reckless, they will not only be reckless likewise,… — Chanakya Copy Share Image
To become enlightened is not just to slip into some disconnected euphoria, an oceanic feeling of mystic oneness apart from ordinary reality.… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
Pound was silly, bumptious, extravagantly generous, annoying, exhibitionistic; Eliot was sensible, cautious, retiring, soothing, shy. Though Pound wrote some brilliant passages, on… — T.S. Mathews Copy Share Image
Writing is not a special language that belongs to a few sensitive souls who have a 'gift for words'. Writing is the… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
