We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now,… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The genius of Coleridge is like a sunken treasure ship, and Coleridge a diver too timid and lazy to bring its riches… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component,… — Moby Copy Share Image
One can think of a secretary actively operating a filing system, of a librarian actively cataloguing books, of a computer actively sorting… — Edward de Bono Copy Share Image
I wonder, only in passing, whether the indelible ornamentation that man inscribes upon his own epidermis does not respond to a nostalgia… — Roger Caillois Copy Share Image
In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system's 'habitable zone' - a theoretical region extending from Venus to… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying… — Lawrence Hargrave Copy Share Image
“Look beneath the surface. Things are usually very different from how they initially appeared, and ignorance, which didn't look beneath the surface,… — Baltasar Gracián Copy Share Image
Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Everything pertaining to what's happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred,… — Jack Ruby Copy Share Image
The happiest woman sees not gladness alone reflected from her mirror; its surface will inevitably be sometimes dimmed with sighs. — Louise Colet Copy Share Image
Shedding the carapace we have been building so assiduously on the surface, we must by definition give up exactly what we thought… — David Whyte Copy Share Image
Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs… — Varley O'Connor Copy Share Image
I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I think of color as being seen in and throughout, not solely on the surface. — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you finally see what goes on… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
A system, artificially stabilized, and of course you have hidden risks under the surface, and you don't know where the risks are. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by means of the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything brought into… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
Let an idea swim to the surface like a fish in a pool...let the mind drift to the vision. — Dick Francis Copy Share Image
The underground of the city is like what's underground in people. Beneath the surface, it's boiling with monsters. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
