"Rule of thumb: Be skeptical of things you learned before you could read. E.g., religion."

-- Ben Casnocha

#Thumbs Quotes #Skeptical Quotes

“Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubts; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.”

Source : "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.
“Walk on air against your better judgement.”

Source : Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.417, Macmillan
“There is something about the Australian psyche that seems to like films that are slightly offbeat.”
“The desert surrounds your every step and you walk forever a thirsty man.”
“When you make a record, you probably are not going to hit exactly what you were aiming for. You also have to let go at a certain point, and just trust it.”
“Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place.”
“Privacy under what circumstance? Privacy at home under what circumstances? You have more privacy if everyone's illiterate, but you wouldn't really call that privacy. That's ignorance.”
“You just can't take the doctor out of you.”

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