The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right
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Quote:- The thing that binds us together is that we have both lowered our expectations of life
Snow
Author:- Orhan Pamuk
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The thing that really is trying to tyrannize through government is Science. The thing that really does use the secular arm is Science. And the creed that really is levying tithes and capturing schools, the creed that really is enforced by fine and imprisonment, the creed that really is proclaimed not in sermons but in statues, and spread not by pilgrims but by policemen—that creed is the great but disputed system of thought which began with Evolution and has ended in Eugenics. Materialism is really our established Church; for the government will really help it to persecute its heretics…I am not frightened of the word ‘persecution’…It is a term of legal fact. If it means the imposition by the police of a widely disputed theory, incapable of final proof—then our priests are not now persecuting, but our doctors are.
Eugenics and Other Evils: An Argument Against the Scientifically Organized State
Author:- G.K. Chesterton
Category:- science
Quote:- The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.
Diane Arbus: Revelations
Author:- Diane Arbus
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
Author:- John Lennon
Category:- hope
Quote:- The thing to be known grows with the knowing.
The Living Mountain
Author:- Nan Shepherd
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The things about which we inquire are equal in number to the things we understand.
Posterior Analytics
Author:- Aristotle
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The things man do publicly, women do secretly. The things women do secretly . Man do publicly. When it comes to moral compass . We are all the same.
Author:- De philosopher DJ Kyos
Category:- best
Quote:- The things that help you sleep all the way through it. Back-breaking labor might do it; or liquor. Surely a body--friendly if not familiar--lying next to you. Someone whose touch is a reassurance, not an affront or a nuisance. Whose heavy breathing neither enrages not disgusts, but amuses you like that of a cherished pet. And rituals help too: door locking, tidying up, cleaning teeth, arranging hair, but they are preliminaries to the truly necessary things. Most people want to crash into sleep.
Jazz
Author:- Toni Morrison
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- The things that pose the greatest threats to your survival are the most real things.
Author:- Jordan B. Peterson
Category:- knowledge,philosophy
Quote:- The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.
Wonder
Author:- R.J. Palacio
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The things we know and believe are a part of us. We feel we have always known them. Almost anything else, anything that doesn’t fit into our structure of knowledge, our mental model of reality, is likely to seem strange, wild, fearful, dangerous and impossible. People defend what they are used to even when it is hurting them.
Escape From Childhood
Author:- John Holt
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The things you allow to control your mind will also control your perception of reality
Author:- Constance Friday
Category:- motivational
Quote:- The things you did not receive are the ones you were ready to compromise on.
Think Act And Achieve: Simple tips and techniques to achieve anything you aspire for and build the life of your dreams
Author:- Bhawna Bharwani
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
Author:- Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
Category:- hope,inspiration
Quote:- The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.
Meditations
Author:- Marcus Aurelius
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The things you're lookingfor, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap willever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book.
Fahrenheit 451
Author:- Ray Bradbury
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- The third serious problem the culture of customer service as we know it creates is turning every profession into a customer service tool to generate profits. In doing so, we risk the loss of creativity, quality, and critical thinking in many walks of life. Nowhere is this risk clearer and more damaging than viewing students at different educational institutions as customers, and nowhere this trend has been happening more rapidly than at schools, colleges, and universities, especially at private institutions. There is severe damage done to creativity and critical thinking when all students want is an A, and in fact feel entitled to get it since they (or their parents) are paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to attend elite schools. Many educators are under enormous pressure to give students grades they do not deserve in order to avoid receiving bad student evaluations (or to ensure getting good ones). This pressure is intensifying as academic jobs become increasingly contingent and precarious, where teaching staff are hired under short contracts only renewed based on so-called ‘performance,’ which is often measured by student evaluations and enrollment. When this happens, academic and intellectual compromises and corruption increase. Colleagues at elite American universities have been pressured to give students grades no lower than a B, with the explanation that this is what is ‘expected.’ Rampant grade inflation is unethical and unacceptable. Unfortunately, when graduate instructors resist professors’ instructions to fix grades by grading according to independent criteria of intellectual merit, they may be verbally chastised or worse, fired. This humiliation not only reinforces the norm of inflating grades, it also bolsters the power of the tenured professors who instruct their teaching assistants to do it.
Author:- Louis Yako
Category:- knowledge