Epistemically Quotes & Sayings

Each dollar worth of fraud committed using mobile devices costs the scammed merchant $3.34. — Anonymous

An innovator is one who does not know it cannot be done. — Raghunath Anant Mashelkar

We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future. — Daniel Dennett

Or that he's slow, Hal's brother is, technically, Stanford-Binet-wise, slow, the Brandeis C.D.C. found
but not, verifiably not, retarded or cognitively damaged or bradyphrenic, more like refracted, almost, ever so slightly epistemically bent, a pole poked into mental water and just a little off and just taking a little bit longer, in the manner of all refracted things. — David Foster Wallace

For every minute, the future is becoming the past. — Thor Heyerdahl

I started as an actor. I started directing because Steppenwolf needed another strong director. — Gary Sinise

My first strike was marrying a guy without a college degree. My second and third were getting pregnant. I suppose that when I didn't go on to become the next Gloria Allred, she was justified in counting me a failure. And I suppose that until now, I was justified in thinking that I wasn't one. — Jodi Picoult

We are more than our bodies, it is true; but we cannot be divorced from them. They are us, and the only way in which we can see one another. Perhaps the gods are above this, but in their mercy, they have given us the guise of bodies. — Margaret George

If a man repeats a lie over and over, he will eventually accept the lie as truth. Moreover, he will believe it to be the truth. — Napoleon Hill

Great art comes from passion, from a need to expose human spirit in the face of mortality, the small cruelties and heroisms that make up daily life
that's where great work comes from, and if you enable students in this way to discover those impulses and observations in themselves, those heroisms and cruelties in themselves, you create an atmosphere in which art can emerge. — Deb Margolis

I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now. — Louise Hay

If you [c]annot find your [h]eart's desire in your own backyard, you never lost it to begin with — Tony Kushner

So the brother in black offers to these United States the source of courage that endures, and laughter. — Zora Neale Hurston

Being inside her feels like being home, it feels like being in love, it feels like everything sweet and beautiful and nice in the world. Every time I come in her I hope I'm making a home for myself, a place where I belong. — Karina Halle

A woman's lust is for a short time; a man's lust is forever. — Santosh Kalwar

[T]he categories of intentionality are nothing more nor less than the metalinguistic categories in terms of which we talk epistemically about overt speech as they appear in the framework of thoughts construed on the model of over speech. — Wilfrid Sellars

Hostility toward Iran may not be the silliest of all American foreign policies - that would probably be the continuing trade embargo of Cuba - but it is undoubtedly the most self-defeating. — Stephen Kinzer

Home life, home teaching, parental guidance is the panacea for all the ailments, a cure for all diseases, a remedy for all problems. — Spencer W. Kimball