Traditional Xmas Quotes & Sayings

Human beings are not nearly as coolly rational as we like to think we are. Having set up comfortable planets of belief, we become resistant to altering them, and develop cognitive biases that prevent us from seeing the world with perfect clarity. We aspire to be perfect Bayesian abductors, impartially reasoning to the best explanation - but most often we take new data and squeeze it to fit with our preconceptions. — Sean Carroll

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand. — Megan Chance

Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good. — Chuck Close

I would always rather do a mediocre script with a great filmmaker than a great script with a mediocre filmmaker. — Kirsten Dunst

Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. — Frederick Douglass

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes. — Djuna Barnes

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. — Robert Fulghum

In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity ... And here, most of the saints are black. — Henry Louis Gates

I had my life threatened by Bosnian Serbs on numerous occasions. — John Pomfret

Myth is the nothing that is all. — Fernando Pessoa

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert. — Ian McEwan

ever thine, ever mine, ever ours — Ludwig Van Beethoven