Distorting Quotes

38 quotes by 34 authors

Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd… — Graydon Carter
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience. — John Dewey
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no mind at all.… — Rajneesh
This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind stops. Outside, the… — Rajneesh
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the… — Stefan Zweig
I have decided to tell the story of my life as best I can, so that my children can separate the truth from the myths… — Marlon Brando
Life may be seen through many windows, none of them necessarily clear or opaque, less or more distorting than any of the others. — Isaiah Berlin
Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. — William Butler Yeats
Robert Spencer, a prolific anti-Islam writer and a leading Islamophobe who is bent on distorting Islam and demonizing Muslims, has persistently argued that violence and… — Louay M. Safi
In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is… — Adyashanti
If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks and I used… — Sharon Olds
Our ideal society finds it essential to put a rent on land as a way of maximizing the total consumption available to the society. ...Pure… — Paul Samuelson
Mindfulness helps us freeze the frame so that we can become aware of our sensations and experiences as they are, without the distorting coloration of… — Henepola Gunaratana
Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts... The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands...… — Milton Friedman
Though I am flattered that Governor Palin has chosen to cite me as a source of wisdom, what I said had nothing to do with… — Madeleine Albright
Never had there been such an opportunity for the dissemination of knowledgeâ€¦. But the obverse is also true. We can have thrust upon us a… — Howard E. Koch
If you say that the history of the Church is a long succession of scandals, you are telling the truth, though if that is all… — Gerald Vann
The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the… — Eric Voegelin
I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and… — Carl Jung
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities… — David Knopfler

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