Pyrrhonism Skepticism Quotes & Sayings

The culturally specific, in particular, the American porch play that American writers have cherished and loved for many years in terms of their new writing, has seemed to have very little relevance to a much more fast-flowing, abstract, experimental drama that has been emerging in [the UK]. The porch play, not to mention that thing of, Oops, I wasn't loved enough by my father, somehow didn't have the relevance in this country. — Stephen Daldry

It's only the last turn of a bolt that tightens it - the rest is just movement. — Shigeo Shingo

(Al) Lopez is a great believer in speed and hustle, in the go-go style of baseball. No other manager is so determined a foe of stodgy baseball, lack of hustle and slipshod practices and so powerful an advocate of the unexpected. — Nellie Fox

You don't know the things in your childhood that influence you. You can't possibly know them. People today try to analyze the early environment and the reasons for something that happened, but if you look at children of the same family
children who have identical parents, go to identical schools, have an almost identical upbringing, and yet who have totally different experiences and neuroses
you realize that what influences the children is not so much the obvious externals as their emotional experiences. Of course any psychiatrist knows that. — Louis Auchincloss

Thus Pyrrhonism is not a sect of people who are persuaded of what they say, but it is a sect of liars. — Antoine Arnauld

You'll never be hurt as much by being open as you have been remaining closed. — Martha N. Beck

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. — H.L. Mencken

When fears are screaming in your ears, try to hear the whispers of your faith and run into that dark path. That is how you reach the paradise. — Akshay Vasu

Telling writers to shut up is a sure way to keep them talking. — James Wolcott

As Rachel Carson once observed, referring to a very different but at the same time profoundly similar problem: "Time is the essential ingredient, but in the modern world there is no time. — Elizabeth Kolbert

People like us we gotta stick together
Keep your head up nothing lasts forever. — Kelly Clarkson

I found that when you are depressed, that's when you do something for somebody else. — Dan Buettner

I have been attacked in Turkey more for my interviews than for my books. Political polemicists and columnists do not read novels there. — Orhan Pamuk

There are days when I still wake up angry, and no one handles it perfectly all the time, but honestly, I feel lucky to have diabetes because of the people I get to meet. The families, the kids, the parents, the other athletes. If I could pick a club to be in, this would definitely be it. — Charlie Kimball