It is a human instinct to feel uncomfortable about eating when we cannot see our food, it is a shame however that we dont get a similar warning when we consume previously unknown information with pathways which we cannot fully trace to its origin or intended destination.
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Quote:- It is a matter of perspective, the difference between opponent and partner," Tsukiko says. "You step to the side and the same person can be either or both or something else entirely. It is difficult to know which face is true.
The Night Circus
Author:- Erin Morgenstern
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- It is a mistake not to know any foreign language, and infinitely worse to have only a superficial knowledge of a foreign language.
Words in Context: A Japanese Perspective on Language and Culture
Author:- Takao Suzuki
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is a mystery to me why some mere minutes transform into moments, hovering outside of time. And how they ebb and flow, stirring wonder and the ache for more. I know the love of a God who is beyond all wanting, but the more I live, the more I want and want and want.
No Cure for Being Human: And Other Truths I Need to Hear
Author:- Kate Bowler
Category:- time
Quote:- It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.
At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Author:- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Category:- time
Quote:- It is a profound and neccesary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.
Author:- Robert Oppenheimer
Category:- science
Quote:- It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them.
Author:- Robert Oppenheimer
Category:- motivational,science
Quote:- It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence.
The Will to Power
Author:- Friedrich Nietzsche
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you.
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Author:- Bill Bryson
Category:- science
Quote:- It is a Someday, when we’re gray and lined like handwritten scripture –we sit content to lose our memoriesand mindstogether, glowing brightly, in and out of time
Letters to My Lover From Behind Asylum Walls
Author:- Robin Sinclair
Category:- time
Quote:- It is a true act of insanity to expect others to believe in the same ideals. One person’s vision of utopia will be another’s version of Hell. I believed that if I gave my writing to a corporation to publish was attune to having my soul ripped out and leaving me a lifeless husk. However, working for an insurance company with no hope for my future was the rebellious act of a petulant child. Sometimes the things that we truly believe in are the things that are drowning us.
Author:- Paul S. Anderson
Category:- motivational
Quote:- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife,' I said, sighing.'Is it?' said Veronica, looking surprised. 'Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes life similar to human societies beyond this planet, and besides--''No, no, it's a quote from ... Never mind,' I said.
The FitzOsbornes in Exile
Author:- Michelle Cooper
Category:- best
Quote:- It is a well known fact that even among highly cultured peoples the belief in animism prevails generally. Even the scholar may kick the chair against which he accidentally stumbles, and derive great satisfaction from thus 'getting even' with the perverse chair.
An Introduction to Philosophy
Author:- Holly Estil Cunningham
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- It is a wonderthat anyone sees this,and a wonderthat anyone else speaks it,and a wonderthat yet another hears it.Yet even when they've heard it,no one knows it at all.
The Bhagavad Gita
Author:- Laurie L. Patton
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- It is a world of disappointment: often to the hopes we most cherish, and hopes that do our nature the greatest honour.
Oliver Twist
Author:- Charles Dickens
Category:- hope
Quote:- It is about pausing constantly to ask, Am I investing in the right activities? There are far more activities and opportunities in the world than we have time and resources to invest in.
Essentialism The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Deep Work, So Good They Cant Ignore You 3 Books Collection Set
Author:- Greg McKeown
Category:- time
Quote:- It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
Author:- G.K. Chesterton
Category:- science