Oikoumene With Tree Quotes & Sayings

This branch of mathematics [Probability] is the only one, I believe, in which good writers frequently get results which are entirely erroneous. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Quit jumping over our feelings! — Jeremy Davis

Importance ! What is it, sir after all ? The respect of fools, the wonder of children, the envy of the rich, the contempt of the wise man. - Barnave. — Anonymous

Eating should be an act of physical necessity or emotional joy, not something to alleviate boredom. — Thomm Quackenbush

When you're a kid and your father is an engineer, he goes to the office. I saw my father get up and go to the office in the house and write. But I don't see any similarities. — Jacques Audiard

You think the dead we have loved ever truly leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself most plainly when you have need of him. — J.K. Rowling

The purer the golden vessel, the more readily is it bent; the higher worth of woman is sooner lost than that of man. — Jean Paul

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier. — Barbara Kingsolver

Some struggle with medical issues - like insomnia - that make sleep hard. But for many of us, the quantity and quality of sleep come down to a matter of choice. Still, only a few enterprising economists have looked closely at this, and generally, those have assumed that we choose our hours of sleep optimally. — Sendhil Mullainathan