Korbel Brut Quotes & Sayings

Knowledge does not mean mastering a great quantity of different information, but understanding the nature of mind. This knowledge can penetrate each one of our thoughts and illuminate each one of our perceptions. — Matthieu Ricard

You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting. — Robert A. Heinlein

Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character, and then he is never made radically better for its influence. — Dorothea Dix

I can't ever come up with any logical reason why she would want to be with me. I just ... have to trust her judgment. — Brandon Sanderson

They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by calling them 'clever. — F Scott Fitzgerald

This afternoon held that special quality of mournful emptiness I've connected with late Sunday afternoons ever since childhood: the feeling of having nothing to do. — Margaret Atwood

Visiting America in the early nineteenth century, Alexis de Tocqueville observd that 'the sects that exist in the United States are innumerable,' and yet 'all sects preach the same moral law in the name of God.' Tocqueville termed religion the first of America's political institutions, which means that it had a profoundly public effect in regulating morality and mores throughout the society. And he saw Christianity as countering the powerful human instincts of selfishness and ambition by holding out an ideal of charity and devotion to the welfare of others. — Dinesh D'Souza