"The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems."

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Source : Gordon W. Allport (1964). “Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”

Gordon Allport

#Commitment Quotes #Maturity Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“God speaks in the silence of the heart, and we listen. And then we speak to God from the fullness of our heart, and God listens. And this listening and this speaking is what prayer is meant to be....”
“Myth is the nothing that is all.”
“Everyone is having sex until they fall in love. When you fall in love, then it's making love.”

Source : "Gilbert Arenas: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 23, 2010.
“A lot of unions are doing the same thing on the left that the NRA is doing on the right.”
“When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.”
“I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.”
“I have, despite all disillusionment, never, never allowed myself to feel like giving up. This is my message today; it is not worthy of a human being to give up.”
“A friend in power is a friend lost.”

Source : The Education of Henry Adams ch. 7 (1907)

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