Constructed Quotes
277 quotes by 254 authors
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Knowledge is constructed, not transferred
— Peter Senge
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We can see from the experience of Odin that the image of the tree was the template within which all of the sacred world could…
— Brian Bates
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No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
— Irving Kristol
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Innovation is a twofold threat to academic mediocrities: it endangers their oracular authority, and it evokes the deeper fear that their whole, laboriously constructed intellectual…
— Arthur Koestler
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We're stuck. We're stuck between the East and the West. Between the past and the future. On the one hand there are the secular modernists,…
— Elif Safak
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A world constructed from the familiar is the world in which there's nothing to learn.
— Eli Pariser
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Neurotic identity crises come when our defense mechanisms have been too successful and we're encapsulated in the fortress we have constructed with nothing to refresh…
— Sam Keen
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Crafted with care and with love, this beautifully constructed novel reveals hard truths and difficult secrets. Diana Davidson is a writer of great honesty and…
— Pauline Holdstock
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But Shakespeare never drank coffee. Nor did Julius Caesar, or Socrates. Alexander the Great conquered half the world without even a café latte to perk…
— Mark Forsyth
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We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the…
— Duane Elgin
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many fleets were pushed out toward…
— Paul Harding
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Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
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The best passing drill is pass - set - hit. The best setting drill is pass - set - hit. The best hitting drill is…
— Marv Dunphy
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Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as [Vaclav] Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only…
— James W. Sire
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A great pair of shoes can make a $20 outfit look like couture, and a poorly constructed pair of shoes can make couture look like…
— Nina Garcia
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My icons do not raise up the blessed savior in elaborate cathedrals. They are constructed concentrations celebrating barren rooms. They bring a limited light.
— Dan Flavin
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The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device, a supercomputer or…
— Barbara Marciniak
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Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton…
— Voltaire
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It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed…
— Anne Rice
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The physical body is conceived and constructed in consciousness as are time and space. All happens within our self.
— Deepak Chopra
Who Wrote These Constructed Quotes
254 authors contributed a total of 277 Constructed Quotes, led by these top contributors: