Religion and science, for example, are often though to be opponents, but as I have shown, the insights of ancient religions and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I remember, once I was stressed, with an upcoming paper deadline. That little Microsoft Word clippy guy would show up in my… — Rana el Kaliouby Copy Share Image
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
“From watching Silvia, I'd learned that one of the worst things about being ill is that most people find your suffering opaque.… — Olivia Sudjic Copy Share Image
No advocate of reason can claim the right to force his ideas on others. No advocate of the free mind can claim… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
What makes a sentence, a phrase, a moment, or a scene delightful? Something about recognizing the truth in it, hearing the music… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
…“white supremacy” is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
One of my favorite guys was Ronnie Lott. I had and have such tremendous respect for him that when I finally got… — Pete Carroll Copy Share Image
I think anything that increases your understanding of the human condition... I think age and life, if you're lucky, makes you think… — Timothy Spall Copy Share Image
I see Lord Buddha in the 21st Century across national borders, across faith systems, across political ideologies, playing the role of a… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
Is the purpose of theoretical physics to be no more than a cataloging of all the things that can happen when particles… — Julian Schwinger Copy Share Image
When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Westerners think that all that is negative and positive is only caused from outside of themselves. They materialize and externalize their experiences,… — Thinley Norbu Copy Share Image
Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
They are lonely. I'm not talking about lonely for a lover or a friend. I mean lonely in the universal sense, lonely… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
No reason to get angry at anybody for slapping you literally or figuratively. It's just nature unfolding perfectly and obviously that slap… — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Most people are defined by their titles, their cars, their house, where they came from, their color, their race, their religion. And… — Stedman Graham Copy Share Image
Forgiveness entails the authentic acceptance of our own worthiness as human beings, the understanding that mistakes are opportunities for growth, awareness and… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
“She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not supposed to understand her. That's not what she's after… She doesn't want you to… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
Presently, the Commission for Commemorating 350 Years of American Jewish History has been brought about to encourage and sponsor a variety of… — Jon Porter Copy Share Image
The top 1 percent have the best houses, the best educations, the best doctors, and the best lifestyles, but there is one… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
“We all reach a point that is the limit of our understanding. When we stare over the precipice of uncertainty and into… — Ramsey Isler Copy Share Image
The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what its about,… — Taylor Kitsch Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Freudian psychoanalytical theory is a mythology that answers pretty well to Levi-Strauss's descriptions. It brings some kind of order into incoherence; it,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
It's just about going out and getting the shot, so I have a great understanding of how to execute it, so that… — David R. Ellis Copy Share Image
When you're studying drama, when you're a young actor, there are simple rules about acting. "Why am I here? What prevents me… — Matthew Modine Copy Share Image
“He finally understood...the thing that the people during the Paleolitic Age, freaking 20,000 to 8,000 B.C., were after when they came up… — Maud Casey Copy Share Image
They have no right to complain! If women were cool with knowing their man is cheating on them then they have no… — Eric Williams Copy Share Image
It is a foolish woman who expects her husband to be to her that which only Jesus Christ Himself can be: always… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defense against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I think many thinkers and activists, even in the Islamist parties like the Muslim Brotherhood, and the people who left the Muslim… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
People who dismiss science in favor of religion sometimes confuse the challenge of rigorously understanding the world with a deliberate intellectual exclusion… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
It's not hard to see why. Although it adds to our overall understanding of Benghazi, even a cursory read reveals sloppy errors… — Stephen F. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Still, the time I spent with her was more precious than anything. She helped me forget the undertone of loneliness in my… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
