Statsroyale Quotes & Sayings

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom. — Michel De Montaigne

It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Cancer, we now know, is a disease caused by the uncontrolled growth of a single cell. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it. — Geoffrey Wood

Choose what is best, and habit will make it pleasant and easy. — Plutarch

It means my brain finds you more interesting than all the really interesting trivial facts I could be contemplating or researching at present. — Penny Reid