"It is, indeed, perhaps the greatest prospect of humanistic studies to contribute through an increasing knowledge of the history of cultural development to that gradual removal of prejudices which is the common aim of all science."

-- Niels Bohr

#Prejudice Quotes #Common Quotes #Study Quotes

“To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they can control it, wish to influence its direction.”

Source : Theodore Zeldin (2012). “An Intimate History Of Humanity”, p.155, Random House
“It was all I had, all I've ever had, the only currency, the only proof that I was alive. Memory.”
“If you depend on being emotionally inspired or newly motivated, you will need a new fix almost every day.”
“Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In contact with nature, a person rediscovers his correct dimension, rediscovers himself as a creature, small but at the same time unique, with a "capacity for God" because interiorly he is open to the Infinite.”
“The more I think about it, the more I believe there has to be a subtle yet satisfying method of revenge.”

Source : "Mary Engelbreit's Words To Live By". Book by Mary Engelbreit, 1999.
“Affectation discovers sooner what one is than it makes known what one would fain appear to be.”

Source : François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.169
“But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.”

Source : Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown
“At Facebook, we try to be a strengths-based organization, which means we try to make jobs fit around people rather than make people fit around jobs. We focus on what people's natural strengths are and spend our management time trying to find ways for them to use those strengths every day.”

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