Note Taking Direct Quotes & Sayings

The issues of what a self is, how long it will last, what will happen when our bodies decay and consciousness flickers off, are all based not on what we actually see but on what we imagine. — Steve Hagen

If all you have is a hammer, everything seems to be a nail. — Robert Sedgewick

The vain presumption of understanding everything can have no other basis than never having understood anything. For anyone who had ever experienced just once the perfect understanding of one single thing, and had truly tasted how knowledge is accomplished, would recognize that of the infinity of other truths he understands nothing. — Galileo Galilei

I'm worried about privacy because of the young people who don't give a damn about their privacy, who are prepared to put their entire private lives online. They put stuff on Facebook that 15 years from now will prevent them from getting the jobs they want. They don't understand that they are mortgaging their future for a quick laugh from a friend. — Alan Dershowitz

Love transcends beyond eternity and it is perpetual as our own consciousness.. — Dave Zebian

I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity. — Jean De La Bruyere

Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility. — Joel Hunter

Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. — Al Lewis

Mars is a rock - cold, empty, almost airless, dead. Yet it's heaven in a way. We can see it in the night sky, a whole other world, but too nearby, too close within the reach of the people who've made such a hell of life here on Earth. — Octavia E. Butler