Change the world Quote by Jerry Fodor

“It took us a while to discover that we do effectively think, but that we more readily narrate backward in order to give ourselves…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The world tells us what we need to know when we are ready to know it and not before. That's the way of things.”

— Keith R.A. DeCandido

“There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to return to his core principle:…

— Haruki Murakami

“The world is dictated by our desires rather than our thoughts. The prior puts the latter in motion.”

— Sarah Noffke

“Knowing, or thinking we know, can lead to many commotions. What we believe, we know, is maybe a mere illusion. Crucial elements might have…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Modern philosophy from Descartes onward has asked itself the question: How can the subject really know the object?”

— William Barrett

“Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?”

— Karen Witemeyer

“As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before. Like stage magic, knowledge…

— Margaret Atwood

“When brought to meaning, all importance becomes small, as in death, all life seems nothing. Knowing is destroyed by thinking, not destroyed but sterilized;…

— William Wharton

“No thought can be formed that isn't informed by the past; or, more precisely, we think only thanks to analogies that link or present…

— Emmanuel Sander and Douglas Hofstadter

“Thought is an Idea in transit, which when once released, never can be lured back, nor the spoken word recalled. Nor ever can the…

— Pythagoras

“This is a book about questioning what others believe to be true, not accepting ideas just because famous people say they are right. I…

— Marc Aronson