Admitting Quote by Elizabeth Gilbert

There seems to me to be something admirable, indeed noble, about the people arguing over Richard III. They're doers rather than naysayers, romantics rather…

— Lucy Worsley

“In his memory there was a great tendency to downplay or completely forget their unlovable characteristics. [...] The thoughts that came wanted to be…

— Stephen King

“His baseline attitude toward humans was that they could all just go fuck themselves and that he was not going to expend any effort…

— Neal Stephenson

Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize…

— Douglas Adams

“But to be included in Dick Diver’s world for a while was a remarkable experience: people believed he made special reservations about them, recognizing…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“It seemed to Jack that if an ordinary human being, his own son, no one particular, could have this purity of mind, then perhaps…

— Sebastian Faulks

These teachings are like a raft, to be abandoned once you have crossed the flood. Since you should abandon even good states of mind…

— Gautama Buddha

“Let us not, in the pride of our superior knowledge, turn with contempt from the follies of our predecessors. The study of the errors…

— Charles MacKay

“We owe a wealth of gratitude to the many heretics that have gone before us, those that had thought independently, and courageously, and dared…

— Beth Sage Owens

“Thoughts such as: “the end justifies the means.” “They are not going to realize it” and so many other sayings, reflect how our society…

— Ana Mendez Ferrell

“[He] believed both love and hate to be irrelevant. To him, they were "impediments of the human condition," and, in his words again, "imagine…

— Max Brooks

“Such thoughts were a hideous testimony to the world he had accepted; a world in which murder was easier than hope.”

— Richard Matheson