Bangalore Days Pictures With Quotes & Sayings

But dogmatism - or the inclination "to identify the goal of our thinking with the point at which we have become tired of thinking" - is so natural to man that it is not likely to be a preserve of the past. [Citing Lessing's January 9, 1771 letter to Mendelssohn.] — Leo Strauss

Interference with communications of science to the public has been greater during the current administration than at any time in my career, — James Hansen

The concepts of right or wrong are always consequential. It can't be situational or it's not right or wrong. — Ilona Andrews

Very few people are conscious of the deeper strata of eternity. The primary reason is either because they lack purity or they lack motivation. — Frederick Lenz

Love liberates us from all primal urges — Soroosh Shahrivar

Pride makes us artificial; humility makes us real — Thomas Merton

Definitely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That's my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She's a gymnast. So I'm a huge fan. — Jaime Pressly

When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology. — John Allen Paulos

One of the drawbacks about adventures is that when you come to the most beautiful places you are often too anxious and hurried to appreciate them. — C.S. Lewis

Because you're a crime writer you're asked to have a point of view on a lot of things, and I'm uncomfortable having public opinions on things that are not my professional area. — Asa Larsson

For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours. — Charles Studd

If you want big improvements, she said, chew gum. Gum? Sure enough, chewing gum has been shown to improve a person's immediate recall of learned words by some 24 percent. Long-term recall improves by a larger 36 percent. To get the benefit, you actually have to chew gum as you are studying; for some reason you can't merely move your jaw up and down. I also discovered that drinking sage tea increases one's recall of words modestly, as does the odor of rosemary. Something as mundane as coffee provides a benefit, too. Drinking two cups of coffee increases neuronal activity in the frontal lobe, where working memory is controlled, and in the anterior cingulum, where attention is controlled. — Michael Erard