I think that the global consciousness concerning all those elements that produce tension, fractions of societies, is changing in the sense that… — Gilberto Gil Copy Share Image
The wonderful structure of the animal system will probably never permit us to look upon it as a merely physical apparatus, yet… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature… This conquering of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There's going to be situations that you get into that you're going to need help, for sure. But for the most part,… — Penny Hardaway Copy Share Image
If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
…the interesting thing was that the Roman Catholic monks and the Buddhist monks had no trouble understanding each other. Each of them… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Everybody has opinions: I have them, you have them. And we are all told from the moment we open our eyes, that… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
True poetry is born of scrutiny, Scrutiny, the son of meditation, Meditation, the son of lore, Lore, the son of inquiry, Inquiry,… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Anytime I get an acting role, I find a way to learn about something new, or heal a part of my life… — Travis Aaron Wade Copy Share Image
Exploring and understanding the Net is an ongoing process. Cyberspace never sits still; it evolves as fast as society itself. Only if… — Mike Godwin Copy Share Image
At the parish level, where the church lives and moves and breathes, that's where we need to be engaging our people much… — Donald Wuerl Copy Share Image
When you're from a background where you've seen your mum beaten up in front of you, you're a dysfunctional human being. You… — Bugzy Malone Copy Share Image
Science, is the creation by humans of a particular paradigm and methodology for discovering truth and understanding reality. Hence it can never… — Stephen A. Diamond Copy Share Image
You know, I think my biggest concern [if Mitt is elected], obviously, would just be for his mental well-being. I have all… — Ann Romney Copy Share Image
“He had a theory that musicians are incredibly complex, and know far less than other artists what they want and what they… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
One of the ways the telegraph changed us as humans was it gave us a new sense of what time it is.… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Yes Headwoman Azaze. But I never lie to Rosethorn. She, um, discourages it." "Evvy and I have an understanding." She grabbed the… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
“No matter what we think we should do, I don’t think you can coerce yourself into loving your neighbor—or your boss—when you… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I think the arrogance of people who think or actually are in the establishment, think they're part of it or actually are,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
Don't try to change the world. First, change yourself or rather, your self-perception, and you find the world automatically corresponding to the… — Mooji Copy Share Image
I think I would want to be a therapist or sociologist. I love talking to people about their relationships and life problems,… — Erin Foster Copy Share Image
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the… — Vannevar Bush Copy Share Image
When you're young your mother shields you from the world because she thinks you're too young to understand, and when she's old… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
I'm not comfortable with words. I love images ,and I love sounds, and I love feelings. I like the idea of intuition.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I watched a lot of games - my family was sick of it - and I could judge if a player was… — Rodri Copy Share Image
We have to understand how the extremists got the way they are. Without that kind of understanding, we'd never really get to… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and… — Felix Dennis Copy Share Image
Our leaders have described the recent atrocity with the customary cliche: mindless cowardice. Mindless may be a suitable word for the vandalising… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that create… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“Why Humanities Matter (Sonnet 2443) There's not one but two kinds of knowledge, one is empirical, another is existential. Maths, physics, chemistry,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Here I had tried a straightforward extrapolation of technology, and found myself precipitated over an abyss. It's a problem we face every… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Regardless of communication between man and man, speech is a necessary condition for the thinking of the individual in solitary seclusion. In… — Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben Copy Share Image
The separation of science and non-science is not only artificial but also detrimental to the advancement of knowledge. If we want to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image