Quorum International Quotes & Sayings

The notion that "applied" knowledge is somehow less worthy than "pure" knowledge, was natural to a society in which all useful work was performed by slaves and serfs, and in which industry was controlled by the models set by custom rather than by intelligence. Science, or the highest knowing, was then identified with pure theorizing, apart from all application in the uses of life; and knowledge relating to useful arts suffered the stigma attaching to the classes who engaged in them. — John Dewey

I didn't want another vibrator night. — Alessandra Torre

Tell me something wonderful- a story that's startling and marvelous. — Julie Eshbaugh

Mankind spends much more on training pilots of aircraft than it does to train the nuclear reactor operators. — Abdus Salam

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare. — Ethel Barrymore

It's nice that we have all these different films. — Charlotte Gainsbourg

MarkBaynard: I figured out in the first grade that it was better to crack a joke than somebody's skull. — Teresa Medeiros

I disapprove of the vain and the religious.
Who can affirm whether you will go to Heaven
or Hell? Besides, what do those words mean? Do you
know any traveler who has been there? — Omar Khayyam

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern. — Saint Basil