As one lamp serves to dispel a thousand years of darkness, so one flash of wisdom destroys ten thousand years of ignorance. — Huineng Copy Share Image
Then there is the way that was taught two thousand years ago - of overcoming evil with good, which is my way,… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Oh, no, Cameron; I believe we're born free of sin and free of guilt. It's just that we all catch it, eventually.… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“Christians have been beaten, whipped, starved, humiliated, mutilated, tortured, hung, burned at the stake, crucified, and fed to lions; yet two thousand… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
It will take a thousand years for the frontier to reach the Pacific — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating… — Julian Casablancas Copy Share Image
“America truly is the best idea for a country that anyone has ever come up with so far. Not only because we… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
“If you simply see the wave, it is impermanent. If you look deep into it and you can find the ocean, it… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Seth and I used to like to picture how our world would look to visitors someday, maybe a thousand years in the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
“Then Er Lang was looking at me ruefully. “You have taken at least fifty years of my life!” I was stricken. “Take… — Yangsze Choo Copy Share Image
“The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. This… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
But look what the Church has done to Jesus during the last two thousand years. What they have made of Him. How… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
“The season of the world before us will be like no other in the history of mankind. Satan has unleashed every evil,… — Vaughn J. Featherstone Copy Share Image
Global warming, you don't win it. It's this weird steady-state issue that's going to be with us for a few thousand years. — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
“I wouldn’t have been able to figure out how to do all this in a thousand years with a hundred monkeys helping… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The itch for naming things is almost as bad as the itch for possessing things. Let them and leave them alone--they'll survive… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I was no conscious chronicler or witness of the events that unfolded in those times. Surely you understand. You must understand. Do… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Martha’s Vineyard had fossil deposits one million centuries old. The northern reach of Cape Cod, however, on which my house sat, the… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Spirituality is no different from what weve been doing for two thousand years just by going to church and receiving the sacraments,… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist.… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
If mankind were all intellect, they would be continually changing, so that one age would be entirely unlike another. The great conservative… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Why not assume that our humanity, including the self-control needed for livable societies, is built into us? Does anyone truly believe that… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Women never have young minds. They were born three thousand years old. — Shelagh Delaney Copy Share Image
“Possibly here in the Holocene, or just before 10 or 20 thousand years ago, life hit a peak of diversity. Then we… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
