Doe Quote by Glenn Gould

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

— Francis Bacon

Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through... whatever we see a negative…

— Vernon Howard

The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose…

— Thomas Chalmers

It is always the task of the intellectual to "think otherwise." This is not just a perverse idiosyncrasy. It is an absolutely essential feature…

— Harvey Cox

“Each of our actions, our words, our attitudes is cut off from the ‘world,’ from the people who have not directly perceived it, by…

— Marcel Proust

Negative thinking limits God and our potential.

— John C. Maxwell

Ours is a precarious language, as every writer knows, in which the merest shadow line often separates affirmation from negation, sense from nonsense, and…

— James Thurber

How weak our mind is; how quickly it is terrified and unbalanced as soon as we are confronted with a small, incomprehensible fact. Instead…

— Guy de Maupassant

When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what…

— Karl Barth

The problem of evil, that is to say the reconciling of our failures, even the purely physical ones, with creative goodness and creative power,…

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“Pity the theory which sets itself in opposition to the mind! It cannot repair this contradiction by any humility, and the humbler it is…

— Carl Von Clausewitz

All things can corrupt perverse minds.

— Ovid