Conception Quote by John Ruskin

“There is no way back to certainty, simplicity and innocence, only the way forward into confusion, uncertainty and knowingness. The gasps of wonder become…

— Oliver James

“Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the foolish and…

— Oliver Cowdery

“Never in our silent moments of illusion do we sense the dark parallel that lives next to us. Nor do we suspect the carrier.”

— Kris Allen Courtney

“An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling falsehood.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It has ever been my lot, though formally myself a teacher, to be taught surely by none. There are times when I have thought…

— Loren Eiseley

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

— Louis D. Brandeis

“We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying what we think, then how little we are…

— Virginia Woolf

“Everywhere he went he saw this same phenomenon—parents unmindful of their children, their attention fixed on little glass windows in the palms of their…

— Douglas Wynne

“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. If liberty means anything…

— George Orwell

“It may indeed be said that the word is never a more splendid mystery than when it travels in a man's mind from thought…

— Victor Hugo

“Now, even though it be neither necessity nor caprice, history, for the authentic reactionary, is not, for all that, an interior dialectic of the…

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila

“Phantoms of thought and memory thinned and fled.”

— Siegfried Sassoon