A religion, that is, a true religion, must consist of ideas and facts both; not of ideas alone without facts, for then… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Fiction isn't made by scraping the bones of topicality for the last shreds and sinews, to be processed into mechanically recovered prose.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
It is a symbol evoking a reality that touches the depths of the person ... the light of goodness that vanquishes evil,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
All art speaks in signs and symbols. No one can explain how it happens that the artist can waken to life in… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is… — Caio Fonseca Copy Share Image
Physically, the heart is an organ that keeps us alive through a coordinated network of cells beating together. Spiritually, the heart is… — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
I believe that the flag of the Confederate States of America is a painful symbol and reminder of racial injustice and slavery… — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
I support the boycott because I do not think at this stage there is any other way to make our authorities see… — Yekaterina Samutsevich Copy Share Image
I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a… — Elaine S. Dalton Copy Share Image
Hail to St. Aegolius Our Alma Mater. Hail, our song we raise in praise of thee Long in the memory of every… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing,… — Theodore Isaac Rubin Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that… — George Johnson Copy Share Image
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the… — Ralph Caplan Copy Share Image
A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will… — Robert Ruark Copy Share Image
If you can't have a good time and smile and relate to people across race and class, then the success that you… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Take the birds which you'll have noticed in so many of my recent paintings. I never thought them up, they just materialized… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
Honor must start in the heart, but if it ends there, it isn’t honor. Honor must be expressed through words, symbols, actions,… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
Does the evolutionary doctrine clash with religious faith? It does not. It is a blunder to mistake the Holy Scriptures for elementary… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
If I wake up one day and people tell me I'm not sexy, I'm not going to stop making good music and… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities… — Morris Graves Copy Share Image
When terrorists attacked the symbols of our national unity and strength, they failed to realize that they were just symbols of our… — Michael Enzi Copy Share Image
[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use… — John Green Copy Share Image
A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
The word is not just a sound or a written symbol. The word is a force; it is the power you have… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
This is an important point about symbols: they do not refer to historical events; they refer through historical events to spiritual or… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
Every natural fact is a symbol of some spiritual fact. Every appearance in nature corresponds to some state of the mind, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In our democratic society, the library stands for hope, for learning, for progress, for literacy, for self-improvement and for civic engagement. The… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
America is a simplified ideological abstraction, an emotive symbol represented by other abstract symbols like the flag. It is the object of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
The seed, swollen with moisture, burst asunder its covering of soil and out peers the blade of wheat, full of symbols. So… — Ephrem the Syrian Copy Share Image
A common allegiance to form of expression that is identified with no single national unit is likely to prove one of the… — Edward Sapir Copy Share Image
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is… — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a… — John Frusciante Copy Share Image
![“Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This…” quote by Ada Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/954/ada-lovelace-10853_business_many-persons-who-are-not-conversant-with_488566.jpg)
![“I see the angel Moroni, standing atop the temple, as a shining symbol of [our] faith. I love Moroni, because in a degenerate society, he remained pure and true. He is my hero. He stood alone. I feel somehow he stands atop the temple today, beckoning us to have courage, to remember who we are and…” quote by Elaine S. Dalton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a7b/elaine-s-dalton-27239_angel_i-see-the-angel-moroni-standing-atop-the_1235464.jpg)
![“[This] is very important to remember when reading or writing or talking or whatever: You are never, ever choosing whether to use symbols. You are choosing which symbols to use.” quote by John Green](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9ae/john-green-12_important_this-is-very-important-to-remember-when_801697.jpg)
