Cobwebbing In Math Quotes & Sayings

All possible truth is practical. To ask whether our conception of chair or table corresponds to the real chair or table apart from the uses to which they may be put, is as utterly meaningless and vain as to inquire whether a musical tone is red or yellow. No other conceivable relation than this between ideas and things can exist. The unknowable is what I cannot react upon. The active part of our nature is not only an essential part of cognition itself, but it always has a voice in determining what shall be believed and what rejected. — G. Stanley Hall

The time for universal praise is sure to come some day. Let us begin to do our part now. — Hannah Whitall Smith

Nothing is as precious to us as the magnificent gift of life. Let the moon and the stars always remind you of this - that though we are tiny creatures in this universe, we are filled with life. — Anne Rice

In avoiding any situations reminiscent of the past trauma, or any initiative that might involve future planning and risk, traumatized people deprive themselves of those new opportunities for successful coping that might mitigate the effect of the traumatic experience. Thus, constrictive symptoms, though they may represent an attempt to defend against overwhelming emotional states, exact a high price for whatever protection they afford. They narrow and deplete the quality of life and ultimately perpetuate the effects of the traumatic event. — Judith Lewis Herman

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations. — Barbra Streisand

You end up throwing a ton of energy into one or two tracks, and the song that we thought was gonna be the single isn't the single. — Ed Robertson

Light's all very well, brothers, but it's not easy to live with. — Mikhail Zoshchenko

It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes. — Victor Hugo

Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality. — Steven Pinker

The noise distorts the truth but we can break through, we need to base our foundation upon the Rock. — Eric Samuel Timm

I had a world, and it slipped away from me. The War blew up more than the bodies of men ... It blew ideas away. — Sherwood Anderson

Travelling in other's shoes is a complex process. Everyone carries loads of inherited virtues and then, heaps of experience acquired while travelling their own exclusive path of life. One's personality, particularly the way one thinks, beholds both inborn traits and learned knowledge. Unless one is born to the same parents as the other, exactly at same time, beholding same blend of inherent traits and travelled the same path the other has travelled so far - a biological and pragmatic impossibility - it is imprudent to claim having knowledge of other's thought process. One's uniqueness is not constrained to the physical form, but is pertinent, too, to intellectual, emotional and spiritual forms. — Hari Parameshwar

No one but an adventurous traveler can know the luxury of sleep. — Benjamin Disraeli

I stop the spinning thoughts, the probing questions, the hands sorting, the laundry work, because God needs knees more than hands. — Ann Voskamp

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture. — Margaret Mead