Subhashis Mukherjee Quotes & Sayings

Wonderful teachers should never let themselves be drill sergeants for the state. — Jonathan Kozol

Curiosity, irreverence, imagination, sense of humor, a free and open mind, an acceptance of the relativity of values and of the uncertainty of life, all inevitably fuse into the kind of person whose greatest joy is creation. — Saul D. Alinsky

There are secrets in all families, you know. — Jane Austen

IDers argue that such traits, involving many parts that must cooperate for that trait to function at all, defy Darwinian explanation. Therefore, by default, they must have been designed by a supernatural agent. This is commonly called the "God of the gaps" argument, and it is an argument from ignorance. What it really says is that if we don't understand everything about how natural selection built a train, that lack of understanding itself is evidence for super-natural creation. — Jerry A. Coyne

This is our foxhole, and in foxholes, sometimes faith is all you've got. — James R. Hannibal

To practice nonviolence, first of all we must learn to deal peacefully with ourselves. — Thich Nhat Hanh

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration. — Robin McKinley

Some of us have become so addicted to pointing fingers at others for all the wrong that happens in our lives that self-assessment has become synonymous with blaming the victim. — LZ Granderson

People always say be true to yourself. But that's misleading, because there are two selves. There's your short term self, and there's your long term self. And if you're only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays. — Brandon Stanton

Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one. — Bridget Riley

Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know. — Confucius

Everything I've always done has been for the sole purpose of increasing my lovemaking output. A lot of guys won't admit that, but I do. I just want to make love. — Rick Fox

Home is the seminary of all other institutions. There are the roots of all public prosperity, the foundations of the State, the germs of the church. There is all that in the child makes the future man; all that in the man makes the good citizen. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Where Watanabe and I are alike is we don't give a damn if nobody understands us ... That's what makes us different from everybody else. They're all worried about whether the people around them understand them. But not me, and not Watanabe. We just don't give a damn. Self and others are separate. — Haruki Murakami

It's not so much that I got that idea at some point, it came up naturally because of the improvisational nature of the story I was telling. — Chester Brown