5303918784 Quotes & Sayings

Genius is often mistaken for idiocy, when perception is blurred by conformity — Jerry Guthrie

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day. — Jerry Ferrara

It was claimed that the Borgias spread arsenic on the entrails of a slaughtered pig, which were then left to rot. The resulting mess was gently dried to a powder which they called La Cantarella, a pale solid that was added to food or drink. If the arsenic did not claim the victim, the toxins from the rotting entrails would probably finish them off. — Kathryn Harkup

If they are gods, why do you lament them? If you lament them, you must no longer regard them as gods. — Heraclitus

If a rare golden heart is sacrificed in the process of trying to research or help many, then the world loses. — Leta B.

It is only when people don't know history well that they judge the present so blindly in ignorance! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Because economics is all about optimising, doing the best you can with what you have - it's usually the first place you should look for answers if you want to maximise your happiness. — Emily Oster

Many track and field people know that if I stay relaxed and run my race like I'm supposed to, I will be the winner at the Olympic Games. — Asafa Powell

It's a very bad idea for scientific conclusions to be accepted because they fit with the political values of a group of researchers. — Philip Kitcher

Even if I give myself over to the madness-or prejudice-here and now, even if doing so destroys me, even if this world vanishes in its entirety, what do I have to lose? — Haruki Murakami

Some psychologists and philosophers are distrustful of the concept of self. They argue against it because they do not like separating man from the continuum with animals, and they believe the concept of the self gets in the way of scientific experimentation. But rejecting the concept of "self" as "unscientific" because it cannot be reduced to mathematical equations is roughly the same as the argument two and three decades ago that Freud's theories and the concept of "unconscious" motivation were "unscientific." It is a defensive and dogmatic science - and therefore not true science - which uses a particular scientific method as a Procrustean bed and rejects all forms of human experience which don't fit. — Rollo May

We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy. — Gabriel Luna