Culturales Quotes & Sayings

Their friendship, remembered from the battle school days, gradually disappeared. It was to each other that they became close; it was with each other that they exchanged confidences. — Orson Scott Card

If we consider what science already has enabled men to know-the immensity of space, the fantastic philosophy of the stars, the infinite smallness of the composition of atoms, the macrocosm whereby we succeed only in creating outlines and translating a measure into numbers without our minds being able to form any concrete idea of it-we remain astounded by the enormous machinery of the universe. — Guglielmo Marconi

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it. — Charles Williams

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time. — Lance Morrow

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice

Think Thousand times before taking a decision But - After taking decison never turn back even if you get Thousand difficulties!! — Adolf Hitler

Put that in your self-righteous pipe and smoke it!!!. — R. Alan Woods

But that's not the point!" raged Ford "The point is that I am now a perfectly safe penguin, and my colleague here is rapidly running out of limbs! — Douglas Adams

I'm always reading plays, and when I find something that I really want to do, then I'll make the time to do it. — Stephen Lang

Why, then, do I continue to claim that creationism isn't science? Simply because these relatively few statements have been tested and conclusively refuted. — Stephen Jay Gould

To inquire and to learn is the function of the mind, By learning I do not mean the mere cultivation of memory or the accumulation of knowledge, but the capacity to think clearly and sanely without illusion, to start from facts and not from beliefs and ideals. There is no learning if thought originates from conclusions. Merely to acquire information of knowledge is to not to learn. Learning implies the love of understanding and the love of doing a thing for itself. Learning is possible only when there is no coercion through influence, thought attachment or threat, through persuasive encouragement or subtle forms of reward. Most people think that learning is encouraged through comparison, whereas the contrary is the fact. Comparison brings about frustration and merely encourages envy, which is called competition. Like other forms of persuasion, comparison prevents learning and breeds fear. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business. — Gregory David Roberts