Jump The Cheeseburger Quotes & Sayings

Human knowledge as it actually is and can only ever be is not a revelation of something objectively and timelessly true, an assured grasp of something existing 'out there' independently of ourselves. It is what we have the best grounds at any given time for believing. Because this is what it is, it does indeed provide the best possible basis for our suppositions and actions. But it always remains our belief, our, conjecture, our hypothesis, our theory; and as such, fallible - and also, as such, a creation of the human mind. — Bryan Magee

When a person doesn't understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn't search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn't understand. — Anton Chekhov

Eaters must understand, how we eat determines how the world is used. — Barbara Kingsolver

The life force knows exactly what it takes to keep any particular living organism - any organism - alive. Anything in manifestation, for that matter. Even a rock is a manifestation of some sort, and you know, in physics and quantum physics, they know a rock is not dead. — Lindsay Wagner

Of all influences that cause men to choose wrong, selfishness is undoubtedly the strongest. Where it is, the Spirit is not. — William R. Bradford

But if you tell folks you're a college student, folks are so impressed. You can be a student in anything and not have to know anything. Just say toxicology or marine biokinesis, and the person you're talking to will change the subject to himself. If this doesn't work, mention the neural synapses of embryonic pigeons. — Chuck Palahniuk

It is permissible with certain precautions to speak in print of coitus, but it is not permissible to employ the monosyllabic synonym for this word. — Bertrand Russell

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

God hides himself from intellectual dilettantes, but reveals himself in Christ to those who humbly seek him. — John R.W. Stott

A word is a thought, of course. But any image, including a photograph, may become an instrument of sufficiently lucid cogitation. — Peter Schjeldahl