Tayfun Tuna Quotes & Sayings

The years between Roger Bacon's birth, in 1220, and Uthred's death, in 1370, are considered the final flowering of the Middle Ages. They were followed by a longer, grimmer period in Europe, during which the machinery for rooting out heresy defeated enlightened discourse almost completely. The early condemnation of works by William Ockham, Johannes Eckehart, the spiritual Franciscans, and Dante signaled the start of a breakdown in the integrity of Western thought. During this Great Interruption, xenophobia replaced curiosity, interest in Islam and the classics withered, and Muslim thought was anathematized or ignored. Fifty years later, it was no longer wise to learn Arabic, Hebrew, or even Greek. — Michael Wolfe

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe. — Marcello Truzzi

What's important is to give your ideas to the world if you love the world. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

That was the first time I've drawn anything for seven years. I feel like I had been held underwater, and someone finally reached down and pulled my head up so I could breathe. — Mick Ebeling

How good is our God! When we can no longer come to Him, He comes to us. — John Vianney

When I first started on 'Medium,' they didn't like me growing my hair too long. But I was freaked out when the hairdresser cut off even an inch. — Sofia Vassilieva

Most of the time I write my best songs just from feeling a strong emotion, so whether I'm just really angry or really sad or really happy, I immediately sit down at a piano and I begin writing a song. — Ella Henderson

Once you acknowledge that reality is not your enemy, it will no longer be your enemy. — Ingrid Weir

My airplane is quiet, and for a moment still an alien, still a stranger to the ground, I am home. — Richard Bach

One must be rich in thought and character to owe nothing to books, though preparation is necessary to profitable reading; and the less reading is better than more;
book-struck men are of all readers least wise, however knowing or learned. — Amos Bronson Alcott

Judging art is like caging a bird. Instead of seeing it soar, you can only watch it flutter. — Ron Brackin

America feels like home as much as it does here. Although it's a strange situation as I feel almost like I'm in no-man's land some of the time, because although I'm a resident, I still can't vote so I don't really have a say in what goes on where I live. — Rick Allen