"Reading a book should not be a passive exercise, but rather a raucous conversation."

“Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book.”

“Each person's only hope for improving his lot rests on recognizing the true nature of his or her basic personality, surrendering to it, and becoming who he or she really is.”

“Thought is prior to language and consists in the simultaneous presentation to the mind of two different images.”

Source : T. E. Hulme, Patrick McGuinness (2003). “Selected Writings”, p.43, Psychology Press

“Nature must be interpreted as matter, energy, and information”

“People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.”

Source : Edward Frenkel (2013). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.145, Basic Books

“This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants,”

Source : "How Amy Poehler and Tina Fey made the Golden Globes the first feminist film awards ceremony" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2015.

“If we're able to identify our own ignorance, we can identify someone else's expertise. We learn how to listen to each other. And that is the foundation of human understanding.”

“True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.”

Source : Joshua Harris (2012). “I Kissed Dating Goodbye: A New Attitude Toward Relationships and Romance”, p.93, Multnomah