"All reasoning ends in an appeal to self-evidence."

-- Coventry Patmore

#Self Quotes #Reason Quotes #Ends Quotes

“Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline and development are related to the smallest things. Conscience, like gravitation, takes hold of atoms. Nothing is morally indifferent. Conscience must reign in manners as well as morals, in amusements as well as work. He only who is "faithful in that which is least" is dependable in all the world.”
“I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.”
“My father was in charge of managing the farm.”
“Economists are about as useful as astrologers in predicting the future (and, like astrologers, they never let failure on one occasion diminish certitude on the next).”

Source : "A Clinton Report Card, So Far" by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., www.nytimes.com. April 11, 1993.
“For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.”
“Not only did we survive AIDS, Reaganomics, poverty, racism, gang violence, police brutality, substance abuse - not only did we survive that, we created something endured. And whatever you might think of commercial hip hop now, there's a lot there to like and there's a lot there to critique and there's a lot of things you could say both about. But we created something that endured when we ourselves were not supposed to endure. When we ourselves were not supposed to survive and thrive. So I think that is worthy of respect and preservation and it's US history.”
“We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.”
“I love finding things that scare me and doing them. That's how you grow.”

Source : FaceBook post by Vanessa Hudgens from Nov 14, 2013

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