"What shapes our lives are the questions we ask, refuse to ask, or never think to ask."

-- Sam Keen

#Thinking Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Favourite Quotes

“All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.”
“The most successful tempters and thus the most dangerous are the deluded deluders.”
“The only technical things I know are treble, volume and reverb, that's all.”
“It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.”

Source : James Wolcott (2013). “Critical Mass: Four Decades of Essays, Reviews, Hand Grenades, and Hurrahs”, p.390, Anchor
“I do still get intimidated by certain things.”
“Away with the cant of 'Measures not men!'-the idle supposition that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot along.”

Source : House of Commons, 1801
“The fact that these scientific theories have a fine track record of successful prediction and explanation speaks for itself. (Which is not to say that I don't directly discuss the work of those philosophers who would disagree.) But even if we grant this, many will argue that scientific knowledge in humans, and, indeed, reflective knowledge in general, is quite different in kind from the knowledge we see in other animals.”
“Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.”

Source : Ann Patchett (2013). “This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage”, p.27, Harper Collins

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