"Every snotty egotistical teenager thinks they're smarter than the world they crawled out of. It didn't take me so long to grow out of that. I think I was only in my early twenties when I realized I was just relying on received ideas."

-- Matthew Specktor

#Teenager Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.”

Source : "Howard Gordon tells Class of 2013: ‘Work hard and be nice’". www.conncoll.edu. May 19, 2013.
“I wanna lie to you sometimes...but I can't. I wanna tell you that it's all good...but it ain't.”
“I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'”
“Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.”
“That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason; there is nothing more excellent than the universe, therefore the universe exercises reason.”

Source : "De Natura Deorum". Book by Cicero, II. 8.; III. 9,
“That's just the way I end up making meaning from the direct material in my life - I think what makes it accessible is the desire to communicate, more than anything. It does make it accessible, but that's not what motivates me.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.”
“We evolved. We have only to look at the pouting face of a young chimpanzee to laugh at its reflections of ourselves. We know that more then 98 percent of our genes are shared with the chimpanzee, but we feel the kinship directly when the furry baby puts up its arms to be held.”

Source : Alison Jolly (2001). “Lucy's Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution”, p.9, Harvard University Press

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