"If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic."

-- Ann Druyan

#Sacred Quotes #Skeptic Quotes #Train Quotes

“Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.”
“There is no trick to writing a believable love story, a heartbreaking scene or real-sounding dialogue. All you need is to tell the truth. Itâ€™s always heartbreaking.”
“Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.”
“Perhaps the greatest contribution that those of us who come from a Christian tradition can make is to throw out the old just-war theory, embrace the nonviolence of Jesus, refuse to kill one another, and truly follow his commandment to "love our enemies.”

Source : Mairead Corrigan Maguire (2010). “The Vision of Peace: Faith and Hope in Northern Ireland”, p.64, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“Hayek made a quite fruitful suggestion, made contemporaneously by the psychologist Donald Hebb, that whatever kind of encounter the sensory system has with the world, a corresponding event between a particular cell in the brain and some other cell carrying the information from the outside word must result in reinforcement of the connection between those cells. These day, this is known as a Hebbian synapse, but von Hayek quite independently came upon the idea. I think the essence of his analysis still remains with us.”

Source : "Through a Computer Darkly: Group Selection and Higher Brain Function". Gerald Edelman, "Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", Volume 36, No. 1 (p. 25), www.jstor.org. October 1982.
“I want to raise a family and have a couple of small Dirks running around. But it will not be easy to win my heart.”
“Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.”
“Gene told me the next day that I got it wrong. But he was not in a taxi, after an evening of total sensory overload, with the most beautiful woman in the world. I believed I did well. I detected the trick question. I wanted Rosie to like me, and I remembered her passionate statement about men treating women as objects. She was testing to see if I saw her as an object or as a person. Obviously the correct answer was the latter. â€˜I havenâ€™t really noticed,â€™ I told the most beautiful woman in the world.”

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