"I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow."

-- Adam Osborne

#Believe Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Mind Quotes

“In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.”
“I just love having little vocal snippets like laughs and coughs, not necessarily stuff that has huge significance, just little human qualities.”
“If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.”

Source : "The Unity of the Free World". Book by Barbara Ward, p. 12, 1961.
“I want to be as feminine and classic as possible.”
“caves so often symbolize rebirth. It's a hidden space, an expected, inscrutable space. Strange things live in there - eyeless salamanders, albino fish, a prophet's epiphanies.”

Source : Barbara Hurd (2005). “Entering the Stone: On Caves and Feeling Through the Dark”, p.1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“A man will be effective to the degree that he is able to concentrate! Concentration is not basically a mode of doing but above all a mode of Being.”
“Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.”

Source : Sherwood Anderson (2012). “Sherwood Anderson: Collected Stories: Winesburg, Ohio / The Triumph of the Egg / Horses and Men / Death in the Woods / Uncollected Stories (Library of America #235)”, p.835, Library of America
“Our young men in Vietnam have not only acquitted themselves in an outstanding manner during combat operations, but they also have been outstanding ambassadors of goodwill in the vital civic action and pacification work among the tortured populace of South Vietnam.”

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