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Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

Ann Richards: [Our understanding is]...

[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.

Source: Female vs....

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Christopher Fry: Between<br>Our birth and...

Christopher Fry: Between
Our birth and...

Between
Our birth and death we may touch understanding
As a moth brushes a window with its...

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Nicolas Boileau: Whatever we well...

Nicolas Boileau: Whatever we well...

Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.

Source:...

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Richard Buckminster Fuller: Most of my...

Richard Buckminster Fuller: Most of my...

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

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Benjamin Banneker: Presumption should never...

Benjamin Banneker: Presumption should never...

Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight...

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Thomas Henry Huxley: The great end...

Thomas Henry Huxley: The great end...

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

Source: Science and...

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Ellen Swallow Richards: I hope that...

Ellen Swallow Richards: I hope that...

I hope that I am winning a way which others will keep open.

Source: In Vassar...

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Joseph Priestley: What I have...

Joseph Priestley: What I have...

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of...

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Harold S Geneen: When I come...

Harold S Geneen: When I come...

When I come upon a man who has a gleaming, empty, clear desktop, I am dealing with a fellow who is so far removed from...

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Frank Lloyd Wright: The truth is...

Frank Lloyd Wright: The truth is...

The truth is more important than the facts.

Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...

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Marcel Duchamp: The chess pieces...

Marcel Duchamp: The chess pieces...

The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on...

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Stanley Kubrick: The theme, what's...

Stanley Kubrick: The theme, what's...

The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

Source:...

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David Cronenberg: Censors tend to...

David Cronenberg: Censors tend to...

Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.

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Groucho Marx: Military intelligence is...

Groucho Marx: Military intelligence is...

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Source: Quoted in A. Spiegelman...

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Shirley MacLaine: The if the...

Shirley MacLaine: The if the...

The if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it...

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Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

Lewis Carroll: The rule is,...

The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday -- but never jam today.

Source: The...

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Daniel Defoe: Vice came in...

Daniel Defoe: Vice came in...

Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.

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Christopher Lasch: Information, usually seen...

Christopher Lasch: Information, usually seen...

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its...

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Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Michel de Certeau: Political organizations have...

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. . ....

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Allan Bloom: The liberally educated...

Allan Bloom: The liberally educated...

The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate...

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