Messam 2020 Quotes & Sayings

Memorizing someone else's explanation of the truth isn't the same as seeing the truth for yourself. It is what it is - the memorization of second-hand knowledge. It is not your experience. It is not your knowledge. And no matter how much material is learned by rote, and no matter how eloquently we can speak about the memorized information, we're clinging to a description of something that's not ours. What's more, the description is never the item itself. By holding onto our impression of certain descriptions, we frequently are unable to see the real thing when it's right before our eyes. We are conditioned by memorizing and believing concepts - the truth of which we've never genuinely seen for ourselves. — H.E. Davey

You should grieve if a fictional character is killed. You should care. — George R R Martin

Usually, the first thing a country does in the course of economic development is to introduce a lot of livestock. Our data are showing that this is not a very smart move and the Chinese are listening. They are realizing that animal-based agriculture is not the way to go ... We are basically a vegetarian species and should be eating a wide variety of plant food and minimizing our intake of animal foods ... — T. Colin Campbell

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art. — Austin O'Malley

Today, every skirmish in every part of the planet is broadcast straight into your living room live, in HD ... over and over again. — Peter Diamandis

Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly. — Mahatma Gandhi

What makes faith valid is not its subjective strength, but the trustworthiness of its object. — Wendy Blight