Browse Quotes

618 quotes in the collection

• You’re 73 years old can you stop with the one-man shows?

  Michael Kearns

• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

  Annie Dillard

• The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable, but still primitive, legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.

  Albert Einstein

• What we see is never raw reality, pure as spacetime what we see is our interpretation of reality, filtered through the lens of our experience and our conditioned worldview. Always, the way we look at things shapes what we see; often, the lens we…

  Maria Popova

• Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river small at first, narrowly…

  Bertrand Russell

• There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

  Seneca

• Never say higher or lower in referring to organisms… Say more complicated.

  Charles Darwin

• Any theory that bypasses the nervous system in order to account for the existence of minds and consciousness is destined to failure. The nervous system is the critical contributor to the realization of minds, consciousness, and the creative…

  Antonio Damasio

• You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometime you might find You get what you need

  Nick Jagger/Richard

• Gossip is not information, not even in the technical sense.

  Murthwaite

• Break the cycle. Rise above. Focus on science.

  Rick Sanchez

• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

  Charles Darwin

• With its glorious nonhuman past and its uncertain but provocative future, this life, our life, is embedded now, as it always has been, in the rest of Earth’s sentient symphony.

  Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan

• I think I’ve discovered the secret of life–you just hang around until you get used to it.

  Charles Schultz

• All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. J.R.R. Tolkien
• Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.

  Hypatia of Alexandria

• I'm the Whether Man, not the Weather Man, for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be.

  Norton Juster

• The most difficult thing is the decision to act; the rest is merely tenacity.

  Amelia Earhart

• The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

  Nikola Tesla

• The number of human activities potentially served by generative language AI is difficult to fathom, much less count. But, they can be imperfectly generalized into three categories: we seek to understand, we engage outside ourselves, and we create.…

  Randy Sparkman