"We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species."

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Source : Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

Desmond Morris

#Survival Quotes #Answers Quotes #Enough Quotes

“I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.”
“Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.”
“The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. X, The Position Today, p. 142, 1949.
“Summer-induced stupidity. That was the diagnosis...”

Source : Aimee Friedman (2012). “Ocean of Secrets”, p.148, Scholastic UK
“Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.”
“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”
“Two hopeful hearts, two lands apart. Together there's no end to what our dream can start.”
“My faith graduated to a place called trust, that I know ultimately - ultimately, that God has good things for me.”

Source : Source: culteducation.com

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