Judicious Def Quotes & Sayings

Understanding human nature must be the basis of any real improvement in human life. Science has done wonders in mastering the laws of the physical world, but our own nature is much less understood, as yet, than the nature of stars and electrons. When science learns to understand human nature, it will be able to bring a happiness into our lives which machines and the physical sciences have failed to create. — Bertrand Russell

That's about when people realized that this wasn't some kind of show, an optical illusion or something to stand around and point at. They might not have understood what they were seeing, but whatever instinct humans possessed that triggered that flight response kicked in.
It became all about survival- about getting away from the big, bad unknown- while trying to snap pictures of the spectacle at the same time.
Got to love the near-innate human response to capture everything on film. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

There's as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail. — Morris Sheppard

The world turns because Man is inspired to better himself — Wayne Wignall

Put simply, if we do not redirect our extraction and production systems and change the way we distribute, consume, and dispose of our stuff-what I sometimes call the take-make-waste model-the economy as it is will kill the planet. — Annie Leonard

It is beyond words or thoughts. — Ramana Maharshi

Nothing is so common as to see a political upheaval pass practically unnoticed merely because the names of the leaders and their parties remain the same. — Constant Lambert

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia. — Iris Murdoch