Despellejar En Quotes & Sayings

Relying on hard data, committing to open and democratic communication, acknowledging fallibility: these are the central tenets of any system that aims to protect us from error. They are also markedly different from how we normally think - from our often hasty and asymmetric treatment of evidence, from the cloistering effects of insular communities, and from our instinctive recourse to defensiveness and denial. — Kathryn Schulz

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them. — Joseph Addison

The rules of the jungle did not apply to those who wrote the rules of the jungle. — Alexander McCall Smith

Perhaps teachers should be instructed in a program where they lie to their students on a regular basis to sharpen up their skills at detecting lies. — Keith Henson

Beauty is the love that we devote to an object. — Paul Serusier

What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare. And it is desperately unfair to the boy. He cannot live his parents' life over again for them. He cannot make up for their own lacks, their own unfulfillments. He cannot carry their torch
only his own. — Sydney J. Harris

When the rosebud is still forming a little green ball, do you berate it for not being in full bloom? Hell, no! — Jayne Williams

We are taught to say, "Our Father," but still it is, "Our Father who art in heaven. " Familiarity there may be, but holy familiarity; boldness, but the boldness which springs from grace and is the work of the Spirit; not the boldness of the rebel who carries a brazen front in the presence of his offended king, but the boldness of the child who fears because he loves, and loves because he fears. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Isn't it fortunate how selective our recollections usually are. — Malcolm Forbes

Aspects that we consider normal today could very well be repugnant in the future - eating animals, for one thing, or abundant choice, or invasive surgery. I was simply trying to demonstrate that what is acceptable today may not be acceptable forever, and vice-versa. — Jasper Fforde

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me. — Joseph Jefferson

She can take Dad to that new-wave nightclub downtown, where all those strange couples in their twenties hang out. — Francine Pascal

I think laughter is a sacred act. — Tom Shadyac

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy. — Ambrose Bierce