Powned Quotes & Sayings

Discovering the unexpected is more important than confirming the known. — George E.P. Box

My basic view of things is - not to have any basic view of things. From having been exceedingly dogmatic, my views on life have gradually dissolved. They don't exist any longer. — Ingmar Bergman

Love is a beautiful, wonderful, and even sacred thing, but until it arrives, shouldn't we give ourselves permission to thrive? — Mandy Hale

Is that a bad thing? I asked, not entirely sure how I felt about the situation. Had it been someone other than Paige, I would have thought they were a spoiled brat getting whatever they wanted because they were famous. And it would have annoyed the living shit out of me. But since it was Paige, I didn't feel as irritated. Which made me a hypocritical dick who was okay with double standards. I should make a T-shirt. — J. Sterling

What blinds us, or what makes historical progress very difficult, is our lack of awareness of our ignorance. — Terence McKenna

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched. — Jonah Hill

Instantaneous cube exist?' 'Don't follow you,' said Filby. 'Can a cube that does not last for any time at all, have a real existence? — H.G.Wells

The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future. — Julian Huxley

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream. — Roger Rosenblatt