Consilience Project Quotes & Sayings

His director told him, as material food was necessary for the body life, spiritual food is necessary for spiritual life. This was result of his consciousness of humility, certainty that whatever he had to do was right. — Leo Tolstoy

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it. — G.K. Chesterton

Smartphone makers sought deeper ties with retail buyers by adding ring tones, games, Web browsers, and other applications to their phones. Carriers, however, wanted this business to themselves. If they couldn't sell applications within their "walled gardens," carriers worried they would be reduced to mere utilities or "dumb pipes" carrying data and voice traffic. Nokia learned the hard way just how ferociously carriers could defend their turf. In the late 1990s the Finnish phone maker launched Club Nokia, a Web-based portal that allowed customers to buy and download — Jacquie McNish

Not to appreciate life, all of life, is not to deserve it. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders. — Desiderius Erasmus

The story that you tell yourself is exactly what holds you back from being successful. — Jordan Belfort

Most human beings, Paulinus, complain about the meanness of nature, because we are born for a brief span of life, and because this spell of time that has been given to us rushes by so swiftly and rapidly that with very few exceptions life ceases for the rest of us just when we are getting ready for it. — Seneca.

People automatically estimate a mom's IQ at around her children's ages, maybe dividing by the number of kids, rounding up to the nearest pajama size. — Barbara Kingsolver

If everyone could get on the same page and realize that we live in the future, we wouldn't have to deal with this bullshit. — Dexter Palmer

Fascism is on the march," Lloyd began. "And it is dangerously attractive. It gives false hope to the unemployed. It wears a spurious patriotism, as the Fascists themselves wear imitation military uniforms. — Ken Follett

Culture consists of connections, not of separations: to specialize is to isolate. — Carlos Fuentes

Look your audience straight in the eyes, and begin to talk as if every one of them owed you money. — Dale Carnegie

Everything is within the limit of possibility by the grace of God. — Lailah Gifty Akita

But I think you're failing to understand exactly what a dissertation is supposed to be. It's not meant to change the world or revolutionize the way we think about anything. It's meant to be a document that I can read and the rest of the committee can read to show us that you have enough understanding to warrant a PhD. That's all. Once you have the PhD, once you leave here, or stay here and become a professor, that's when your real work will start. — Chad Kultgen

Back to his various modes of escape and survival. Because you have to escape to survive, as you must survive to escape. — Adam Rapp