Famous Quotes & Sayings

Albert Einstein

It is nothing short of a miracle that modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry.

Vincent Canby

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Samuel Beckett

And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing. Here all is clear. No, all is not clear. But the discourse must go on. So one invents obscurities. Rhetoric.

Paul Berg

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

Joseph Joubert

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

Moliere

Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

There is a point at which curiosity becomes unbearable, when it becomes an obsession, like hunger.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

Harry Styles

I think, you know, we entered the 'The X Factor' in the U.K., and you kind of want someone who knows what they're talking about to tell you if you're any good or not instead of just your mum saying that you like it when you sing.

Pope Benedict

It is just one year since his pontificate entered its final phase, full of suffering and yet triumphant and truly paschal.

Rodger Hannel

I think they (Payson) entered it with an open-minded interest to see the ramifications.

Julian Assange

Cablegate is 3,000 volumes of material. It is the greatest intellectual treasure to have entered into the public record in modern times.

Stephen Greenblatt

the heads on the pikes may have spoken to him on the day he entered London - and he may well have heeded their warning.

Bible Bible

And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

O. J. Simpson

They had entered it the last three or four seasons and had made it to the title game, but lost. For the seniors, they felt a little vindication after winning it.

Andrew Patel

The plea that will be entered next Thursday will be 'not guilty'.

Stuart Hoffman

There is no question that we've entered a new era. The question seems to be how long it will continue, and the jury is still out on that one.

Bryan Randall

He seems to be real comfortable with the system. He seems like he's been doing it longer than two years. He seems like he's made strides.

F. Stone

I think what makes this one different is just the sheer scope and size of it. It's just going to be a much, much longer haul.

Alberto Fujimori

It is no longer a possibility or an option.

Matisyahu

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

Phil Zepeda

Our relief is not going to be a matter of weeks and months, but probably much longer than that.

John Phelan

Our message is that suffering years of misery to remain super-skinny is not going to have a big payoff in terms of a longer life.

Pierre Lapointe

In the long term, I remain positive but the question is how much longer will we have up and downs, but mostly downs, like we've been having for two or three weeks.

Dr. Armstrong

In our trial, women who received part of their chemotherapy via an IP route had a median survival time of 16 months longer than women who received only IV chemotherapy.

George Charamba

I no longer talk to you and you must never phone me again.

Mitchell Baker

What we have is 95 percent there and what we are doing at the moment is actually polishing.

Andy Schulz

I thought you saw the momentum swing once we got the lead. That was a big factor.

Alan Pardew

We're playing with a real exuberance. We were very strong individually at the back and at the moment I am very pleased.

Takenori Kanzaki

I think we have the momentum to get a majority, and I want to keep up this momentum right to the end.

Nick Saban

I think that was really probably the turning point of the game, that we could recapture the momentum and come right back and make a big play and score and keep them three scores behind,

Joshua Lederberg

I was making a lot of momentous personal decisions. I was still very very young: when the prize was awarded, I was 33; the work I had done when I was 21.

Janet Ray

He was sweet from that moment on. I don't understand what happened.

Rose Kennedy

Life isn't about milestones, it's about moment

Virginia Woolf

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Jay Pandolfo

He has his problems, just like everyone else has problems. I think he always overcame them.

Brian Shipley

It wasn't pretty, but we did what we had to do to win. We took it one pitch at a time and overcame adversity.

Walter Gardner

I don't think we questioned anything. Every team has a rough spot during the season -- we just had it during most of the season. And we overcame all of it.

Ted Cruz

I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

A. Hodge

No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequately comprehended till it is viewed in harmonious relations to all the other truths of the system of which Christ is the centre

Richard P. Feynman

You can recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity. When you get it right, it is obvious that it is right -- at least if you have any experience -- because usually what happens is that more comes out than goes in.

Russell Lynes

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

William S. Burroughs

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

William James

In the last analysis, then, we believe that we all know and think about and talk about the same world because we believe our PERCEPTS are possessed by us in common

William James

Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes

William James

Our theories are wedged and controlled as nothing else is. Yet sometimes alternative theoretic formulas are equally compatible with all the truths we know, and then we choose between them for subjective reasons. We choose the kind of theory to which we are already partial: we follow 'elegenace' or 'economy'

William James

Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences