"We may fondly imagine that we are impartial seekers after truth, but with a few exceptions, to which I know that I do not belong, we are influenced-and sometimes strongly-by our personal bias; and we give our best thoughts to those ideas which we have to defend."

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Source : August Krogh (1959). “The anatomy and physiology of capillaries”

August Krogh

#Ideas Quotes #Giving Quotes #May Quotes

“When you feel how depressingly slowly you climb, it's well to remember that Things Take Time.”
“Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.”
“Our marvelous new information technologies boost our power and opportunities for political engagement, but they can also disempower us by contributing to extreme political mobilization that sometimes overwhelms our institutions. These institutions were designed for rural societies operation at a tiny fraction of today's speed and with a citizenry vastly less capable that today's. It's unclear how they will change to adapt to the new reality, but change they must.”
“Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing you still have hope.”
“Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends”
“I just get the feeling that if Jesse Helms was in charge of art in America, you'd go into a museum and see nothing but prints of dogs playing cards.”
“I really love dogs. When I see a dog, I go crazy, it's like, â€œOh my God, come here, come here!â€”
“The thing about politicians in Britain is that they are out there, you can lobby them, get close to them, there are loads of ways you can protest against them, and booing is a pretty weak way of doing it.”

Source : "Would you have booed George Osborne at the Paralympics?" by Alastair Campbell and Danny Kelly, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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