Scolarite Quotes & Sayings

Percent of medical students take no course in geriatrics, — Atul Gawande

As a matter of fact student riots of one sort or another, protests against the order that is, kicks against college and university management indicate a healthy growth and a normal functioning of the academic mind. — William Allen White

Choices after waking up: To be true or to lie? To take action or be brainwashed? To be free or be jailed? — Ai Weiwei

Different is better when it is more effective or more fun. — Tim Ferriss

What we take ourselves to be doing when we think about what is the case or how we should act is something that cannot be reconciled with a reductive naturalism, for reasons distinct from those that entail the irreducibility of consciousness. It is not merely the subjectivity of thought but its capacity to transcend subjectivity and to discover what is objectively the case that presents a problem ...
Thought and reasoning are correct or incorrect in virtue of something independent of the thinker's beliefs, and even independent of the community of thinkers to which he belongs. (p. 71) — Thomas Nagel

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely. — Martha Graham

I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war ... — Curtis LeMay

I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want. — Robert Darnton

In order to stay out of trouble I worked in industry. You can't even do that nowadays; there were all those factories. — Luis J. Rodriguez

I'm a man of strong physical needs, but I'm clearly a romantic at heart. — Victoria Dahl

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting. — Pierre Bonnard

I have been an avid reader since my youth. Because I also liked to play tabletop games, I soon felt the desire to make the story narrated in a book or an aspect of that story come alive in a game. — Klaus Teuber

And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates. — Curt Flood