In two senses: One is that you cannot go on the street and shout that you are an atheist, the other is that you are never given the intellectual framework for calling your faith into question.
Insightful Knowledge Quotes to Expand Your Mind - page 125
We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.
Frank Abagnale
Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.
Judgement holds in me a magisterial seat, at least it carefully tries to. It lets my feelings go their way, both hatred and friendship, even the friendship I bear myself, without being changed and corrupted by them.
The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.
We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.
When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
R. Kelly
Each mind has its own method. A true man never acquires after college rules.
They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself.
Patricia Richardson
I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.
Charles William Eliot
Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.
Each life reverberates in every other life. Whether or not we acknowledge it, we are connected, woven together in our needs and desires, rich and poor, men and women alike.
Susan Griffin
The absurd, with its rupture of rationality-of conventional ways of seeing the world-is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.
William Kentridge
