The strife of politics tends to unsettle the calmest understanding, and ulcerate the most benevolent heart. There are no bigotries or absurdities… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
No man is happier than he who loves and fulfills that particular work for the world which falls to his share. Even… — Leopold Hartley Grindon Copy Share Image
“{ On the death of Hale's esteemed friend and fellow scientist, Luther Burbank . Burbank was much beloved by the population unil… — Wilbur Hale Copy Share Image
“Understanding How much we long to be understood. Fundamentally this is not about being in agreement though that seems to make… — Gunilla Norris Copy Share Image
I hope I succeed in demonstrating that you may equally find compelling and significant narratives - stories that alter or add to… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
Genius is neither learned nor acquired. It is knowing without experience. It is risking without fear of failure. It is perception without… — Patricia Polacco Copy Share Image
Quite early on, and certainly since I started writing, I found that philosophical questions occupied me more than any other kind. I… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things"… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
When you are learning through poetry how to speak English, it lends to a great understanding of sound, of pitch, of pronunciation,… — Amanda Gorman Copy Share Image
One is not unpopular because he uses peculiar expressions; that just so happens; such terms become a fad, and by and by… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
It isn’t until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are that you can begin to take control of yourself.… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
We must come to understand the deep mutual connection or kinship between the various forms of our spirituality. We must recollect our… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
At school boys become gluttons and slovens, and, instead of cultivating domestic affections, very early rush into the libertinism which destroys the… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wanted to turn on the table saw and rip a plank, but I had to drive to the airport. I had… — Percival Everett Copy Share Image
Central to Jungian psychology is the concept of "individuation," the process whereby a person discovers and evolves his Self, as opposed to… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
Coercive measures may have a restraining effect for a time, but can never subdue an untractable spirit: it is only by engaging… — Mary Hays Copy Share Image
Fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things.… — Tribhuvan Suthar Copy Share Image
The City of London has never been known for understanding technology and has never matched Silicon Valley's tradition of knowledgeable investment in… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're anti-war it doesn't mean you are 'Pro' one side or the other in a conflict. However, it does make you… — Eddie Vedder Copy Share Image
If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
You can go through your whole life telling yourself that life is logical, life is prosaic, life is sane. Above all sane.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
My family has always supported my activities, whether it was doing combat in Korea, flying progressively and challenging fighter-jet aircraft in Europe,… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Humanists try to behave decently and honorably without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. The creator of the universe… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“We imagine always when we speak that it is our own ears, our own mind, that are listening. The truth which one… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The use of online assessment tools is giving teachers a more fine-grained understanding of individual students' skills, and assisting them to determine… — Susan Mann Copy Share Image
Don't be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found. It… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
A heartwarming tale of Christmas past that's chock full of all the wit and hilarity we admire in America's favorite humorist--Mark Twain.… — Gilbert King Copy Share Image
Understanding how to find the magic moments in your daily life is critical. If you subscribe to the philosophy that says, "My… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
Waiting upon the Lord gives us a priceless opportunity to discover that there are many who wait upon us. Our children wait… — Robert D. Hales Copy Share Image
The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I remind myself that the universe is 15 billion years old, and I'm only 46 years old, so my perspective is sort… — Moby Copy Share Image
What makes a subject difficult to understand if it is significant, important is not that some special instruction about abstruse… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I had published a co-edited book with Oxford a decade ago, my first book actually. Years later I found myself having lunch… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image