"I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips."

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Source : Quoted in Francis Klagsbrun's TheFirst Ms. Reader We are the Crazy Lady and Other Feisty Feminist Fables (p. 67)

Cynthia Ozick

#Mistake Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“Faith is a quality of being: of being in touch with oneself, with life, and with the universe. It is a sense of belonging to one's community, to one's country and to the earth. Above all it is a feeling of being grounded in one's body, in one's humanity, and in one's animal nature. It can be all of these things because it is a manifestation of life, an expression of the living force that unites all beings. It is a biological phenomenon and not a psychic creation.”
“You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.”
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”
“When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money...”
“Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?”
“Act your age don't pretend to be older than you are give yourself time to grow”
“I think we d like life to be like a train..but it turns out to be a sailboat.”
“Some people, you have to grit your teeth in order to stay in the same room as them, but you get on and ask the questions you assume most of the people watching want to ask.”

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