"Pride keeps you from dealing with truth. It distorts your vision. You never change when you think everything is fine. Pride hardens your heart and dims the eyes of your understanding. It keeps you from the change of heart--repentance--that will set you free."
John Bevere
"Design is an art, creative artist must have a beautiful mind."
Bhupesh B. Patil
"The imagination is a healthy thing, and a great many scientific discoveries could not have been made without it, but it need to be harnessed to some serious object if it is to come to anything."
Diane Setterfield
"He called it potentia because there's nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you're making it up as you go along."
Ben Aaronovitch
"Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another."
Desiderius Erasmus
"You will need to verify your identity with a sacrifice.'Didn't you ever hear of retina scans? Maybe fingerprints? Something less invasive?"
J.T. Bock
"The shock of photographed atrocities wears off with repeated viewings, just as the surprise and bemusement felt the first time one sees a pornographic movie wear off after one sees a few more."
Susan Sontag
"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"
Henry David Thoreau
"Let your mind wander in simplicity, blend your spirit with the vastness, follow along with things the way they are, and make no room for personal views - then the world will be governed."
Zhuangzi
"Our universities and museums are respected around the country."
Jane Byrne
"It's not about outward appearances but inward significance. A grandeur in the world, but not of the world, a grandeur that the world doesn't understand. That first glimpse of pure otherness, in whose presence you bloom out and out and out.A self one does not want. A heart one cannot help."
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