"I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it."

-- Nikolai Berdyaev

#Thinking Quotes

“Numbers are the product of counting. Quantities are the product of measurement. This means that numbers can conceivably be accurate because there is a discontinuity between each integer and the next. Between two and three there is a jump. In the case of quantity, there is no such jump; and because jump is missing in the world of quantity, it is impossible for any quantity to be exact. You can have exactly three tomatoes. You can never have exactly three gallons of water. Always quantity is approximate.”
“There's a lot of ridiculous hypocrisy about sex in films today. And that's one of the reasons why I made 9 Songs, to say, "Why can't you put sex in a film?"”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.”
“Drill for oil? You mean drill into the ground to try and find oil? You're crazy!”
“To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.”
“For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

Source : Mary Kay Ash (1986). “Mary Kay”, Harper Perennial
“The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on which we ride out the truth of our experiences.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

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