Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

So one time when I was working in this motel one of the toilets leaked and I had to replace the flapper ball. Here's what it said on the package; I kept it till I knew it by heart: 'Please Note. Parts are included for all installations, but no installation requires all of the parts.' That's kind of my philosophy about men. I don't think there's an installation out there that could use all my parts.

Baruch Spinoza

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

Augustine Birrell

History is a pageant and not a philosophy.

Ayelet Waldman

Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage.

Ayn Rand

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Bertrand Russell

When you are studying any matter or considering any philosophy, ask yourself only: what are the facts, and what is the truth that the facts bear out. Never let yourself be diverted by what you wish to believe, but look only and surely at what are the facts.

Brian Henson

And again, we're kind of trying to be in that place, that's just so absurd and irreverent and hysterical and it's something that at our company we're kind of, we're so irreverent about everything, we're sort of irreverent about the establishment, we're irreverent about civilization, we're irreverent about philosophy, we're irreverent about religion.

Brenda Song

I'd have to say I'm pretty adventurous. I just went to Shanghai for the Special Olympics and I tried dim sum. I'd never really had it before and some of it looked pretty scary, but I tried it anyway. My philosophy is, you're not going to know if you like it until you try it.

Bryant H. McGill

You may find many contradictory statements and philosophies within my writings. However, to this I will say such is life, for life is full of contradictions.

Anton Chekhov

A person loves to talk about his illnesses although that is the least interesting part of his life.

Dean Koontz

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

Arthur Young

There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.

Abraham Verghese

She felt the familiar calmness of an emergency, but she understood the falseness of that feeling, now that it was her life at stake.

Alexander Pope

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field.

Thomas Sydenham

Nothing in medicine is so insignificant as to merit attention.

Rashid al-Ghannushi

Just like in medicine, when the normal medicine no longer works, one resorts to surgery. And the revolutions is like the surgery: Its painful, and its the last resort for nations.

Ron Kaufman

When something needs to be improved, take your medicine - fix it.

Rush Limbaugh

It's an expansion. And it's a stealth mechanism to put the tentacles of socialized medicine even deeper into society.

Ariel Gore

A lot of positive psychology is stuck in being the psychology of privilege, and I reject that.

Claude C. Hopkins

Human nature is perpetual. In most respects it is the same today as in the time of Caesar. So the principles of psychology are fixed and enduring

David Frost

Now he's miserable and depressed.

Albert Camus

Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

Alfred Adler

My psychology belongs to everyone.

Thomas Nagel

I conceive ethics as a branch of psychology.

Phil McGraw

Well, I'm not sure what pop psychology is, but I don't like it.

Mignon McLaughlin

Neurosis is no worse than a bad cold; you ache all over, and it's made you a mess, but you won't die from it.

Marvin Minsky

Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence, computer science, and psychology. He's redefining and reforming the role of the philosopher.