Browse Quotes

618 quotes in the collection

• What has become clear to me is that without intimate human connection, however fleeting, we are lost.

  Dave Pell

• A new consciousness is developing which sees the Earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the Earth…

  Carl Sagan

• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

  Socrates

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

  Annie Dillard

• Expect anything worthwhile to take a long time.

  Debbie Millman

• The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations.

  Maria Popova

• Question your maps and models of the universe, both inner and outer, and continually test them against the raw input of reality.

  Maria Popova

• We are born without choosing to, to parents we haven’t chosen, into bodies and borders we haven’t chosen, to exist in a region of spacetime we haven’t chosen for a duration we don’t choose.

  Maria Popova

• Online behavior is a recapitulation of anarchic, archaic, primal, tribal social dynamics. The Stone Age brain still does Stone Age things, just on a smartphone.

  Matthew Gasda

• Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the…

  Isaac Asimov

• As I get older, I keep thinking, how can I be a good ancestor?

  Vint Cerf

• The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: "What good is it?" If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we…

  Aldo Leopold

• For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise.

  Benjamin Franklin

• We are not enough in love with our existence.

  Marilynne Robinson

• What I cannot create, I do not understand

  Richard Feynman

• We are in a super weird situation right now. The world is dying of stupid, and we’ve just invented a robot that’s smart. Holy fucking shit: Maybe it will save us. Because by ourselves, we are done. Geoengineering, it’ll work just fine; solar…

  Vinay Gupta

• The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures

  Charles Babbage

• To define the future, one must study the past

  Confucius

• The miracle is this: The more we share, the more we have

  Leonard Nimoy

• Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay…

  Nick Cave