Peregrination Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

By our very attempt to grasp an explanation, we leave things out. — Steve Hagen

In one recent experiment, Damasio and his colleagues had subjects listen to stories describing people experiencing physical or psychological pain. The subjects were then put into a magnetic resonance imaging machine and their brains were scanned as they were asked to remember the stories. The experiment revealed that while the human brain reacts very quickly to demonstrations of physical pain-when you see someone injured, the primitive pain centers in your own brain activate almost instantaneously- the more sophisticated mental process of empathizing with psychological suffering unfolds much more slowly. It takes time, the researchers discovered, for the brain "to transcend immediate involvement of the body" and begin to understand and to feel "the psychological and moral dimensions of a situation." (p220) — Nicholas Carr

I am confident that the day is not far distant when the light of peace shine again. — Iwane Matsui

Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions. — Frank Herbert

Her anger at the young woman's stubbornness quickly prompted recollections of all the times she'd found herself on one side or another of these meaningless, bigoted demarcations; all the times she'd been made to feel alien to some stranger's expectation of what constituted the right and normal world---the color of her skin, the ethnicity of the man she'd chosen to marry, even her tomboy daughter. — Omar El Akkad

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue. — Vita Sackville-West

Intentions are nice, but ultimately intentions don't really matter because they only exist inside you. — Kelly Williams Brown

If prevision be a fact, it is a fact which destroys absolutely the entire basis of all our past opinions of the universe. — J.W. Dunne

Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around! — Abigail Washburn