"-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts,……" — Alan Lightman
"-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences."
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65 Quotes by Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman has 65 quotes on this site.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on…
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as…
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back…
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished…
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is…
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in…
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn…
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We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of…
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile…
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More Experiences Quotes
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties…
— Sai Baba
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What I enjoy most is travelling to different places and meeting new people. For me, it's all about life experiences,…
— Jensen Ackles
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
— Edward Bach
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I tend to be really pragmatic, but ultimately tend to be attracted to people who pull me into more spontaneity.…
— Amy Adams
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I don't personally look to my own life experiences for answers about how to play a scene.
— Christian Bale
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My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But…
— Drew Barrymore
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Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes…
— Gregory Bateson
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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by…
— Martha Beck
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The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called…
— Alfred Adler
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You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.
— Stella Adler
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