Logikcull Quotes & Sayings

He found the building in front of which he had stood in the sun all day waiting to be discharged, in which the crazy doctor had suggested that he stay over another day to let him check that heart again and it had taken precious time to persuade the man that joy alone made it beat so wild. Perhaps someday he would die of that. — Douglas Woolf

It was the merit of Gestalt psychology to make us aware of the remarkable performance involved in perceiving shapes. Take, for example, a ball or an egg: we can see their shapes at a glance. Yet suppose that instead of the impression made on our eye by an aggregate of white points forming the surface of an egg, we were presented with another, logically equivalent, presentation of these points as given by a list of their spatial co-ordinate values. It would take years of labour to discover the shape inherent in this aggregate of figures - provided it could be guessed at all. The perception of the egg from the list of co-ordinate values would, in fact, be a feat rather similar in nature and measure of intellectual achievement to the discovery of the Copernican system. — Michael Polanyi

I'm not sure that religion was constructed with time travelers in mind." Buck's brows rose at that. "Constructed?" he echoed, surprised. "Who builds God? — Diana Gabaldon

I knew I should have changed your name from Nightie Girl to Naughty Girl. — Alice Clayton

I am a happy healthy soul by divine grace. — Lailah Gifty Akita

This notion [skepticism] is more clearly understood by asking "What do I know?" — Michel De Montaigne

I want to bring something different to every film. I get a bit tired of actors who kind of are the same character in every film that they do. — Guy Pearce

She didn't understand it, but everything about him reminded her that she was a woman. — Jill Shalvis