The Enlightenment was an attempt to liberate myth and base truth claims on evidence, not just dogma. But when science threw out the church, they threw out the baby with the bath water. Ken Wilber Read Quote
To other Canadians who are on journeys to defeat cancer and to live their lives, I say this: please don’t be discouraged that my own journey hasn’t gone as well as I had hoped. You must not lose your own hope. Jack Layton Read Quote
Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be bright until you hear them speak. Brian Williams Read Quote
Don’t forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope. Bruce Feiler Read Quote
Do not buy the hype from Wall St. and the press that stocks always go up. There are long periods when stocks do nothing and other investments are better. Jim Rogers Read Quote
I wash my face three times a day and I make sure that I always take off my makeup before I sleep. Ananya Panday Read Quote
Military dictatorship, you can focus on it, you can fight it directly. It’s a band of power-driven people. Wole Soyinka Read Quote
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice. Wislawa Szymborska Read Quote
Those small things, like giving a hug to man, I try to avoid it. Because I can see the situation is coming, and I try to prepare. But I remember the first time I did it, I was 16, and I was at the gymnasium, and it was a cosmopolitan thing, an international thing, a modern thing, but I never felt at ease with it at all. Karl Ove Knausgard Read Quote
The essence of my character is an inability to get used to things. This, in fact, is the one thing I have grown accustomed to: an inability to get used to things. Geoff Dyer Read Quote
