Captaining The Axiom Quotes & Sayings

You may read any quantity of books, and you may almost as ignorant as you were at starting, if you don't have, at the back of yourminds, the change for words in definite images which can only be acquired through the operation of your observing faculties on the phenomena of nature. — Thomas Huxley

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things.
In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible. — Caroline Kennedy

He reasoned that, as there was nothing he could do about his feelings, he must avoid acting on them. — Richard Flanagan

Rich people making their houses bigger in order to make their lives happier wind up hurting their own marriages. There's a deep irony here. Do the couples perceive that irony? — Tucker Carlson

How many wars will it take us to learn that only the dead return? — Andrea Gibson

I started philosophy looking for answers. But along the way I came to prize exploring the questions. Progress in philosophy consists, I think, in a clearer delineation of the conceptual options, not in reaching determinate conclusions. — Kwame Anthony Appiah

Dream of a world where children can laugh and play and not be blown up by a mine they thought was a toy. — Desmond Tutu

One condemns the whole past as a time of ignorance and prejudice, while knowing nothing of that past and very little of the present. — Julia P. Gelardi

Suffering is intrinsic to human existence. There is no joy without its attendant pain. — Peter Ackroyd

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence. — Ralph Allen