Aptitude Quote by William Zinsser

“dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally Socrates and…

— Karen Armstrong

“The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly.…

— ralph waldo emerson

“I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it interesting to…

— Benjamin Constant

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.”

— Marlena De Blasi

“Who can compute what the world loses in the multitude of promising intellects combined with timid characters, who dare not follow out any bold,…

— John Stuart Mill

“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I wonder how they convince their conscience believing in myths and fallacious stories.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Sometimes it is necessary to come up with a myth that people can blame, rather than the cold hand of unfeeling fate.”

— Matthew Mather

“– a narrative, let me here say, which, in its latter portions, will be found to include incidents of a nature so entirely out…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“If you held to principle so passionately, so inflexibly, indifferent in the particulars of circumstance - the full range of what human beings, with…

— Sonia Sotomayor

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when their very…

— Skye Warren