"When adults first become conscious of something new, they usually either attack or try to escape from it ... Attack includes such mild forms as ridicule, and escape includes merely putting out of mind."

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Source : William Ian Beardmore Beveridge (1950). “The Art of Scientific Investigation”

William Ian Beardmore Beveridge

#Discovery Quotes #Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes

“One of the greatest weaknesses in most of us is our lack of faith in ourselves. One of our common failings is to depreciate our tremendous worth.”
“You put three girls in a house, and all of a sudden before you know it, youre talking about boys and drinking whiskey, and things go down and you get deep real quick.”

Source : "Black Rock Down at Sundance". Interview with Jenni Miller, www.gq.com. January 23, 2012.
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.”

Source : William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”
“Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely. I am not you.”
“I did not have a reputation to defend.”
“The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be.”
“Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.”
“Hay que ser absolutamente Moderno”

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