"Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low expectations."

-- Susan Jacoby

#Truth Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

Source : "Philomena interview: Steve Coogan". www.sbs.com.au. December 28, 2013.
“You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.”
“The real secrets start leaking out when there are too many secrets because people can't remember what's a real secret. There's a very famous line by National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy: "If you guard your toothbrushes and your diamonds with equal zeal, you'll lose fewer toothbrushes and more diamonds." And that's where we are right now.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Only a fool takes offense at the truth, Jessamine. They are awful, of that there is no question. But they are also very charming. Purveyors of unspeakable suffering and indescribable delights. Performers of murders and miracles! You might grow to like them, if you got to know them as I do. But why has your beloved Crabgrass ventured into this garden of horrors, I wonder?”
“People have always thought I was "on" something. After a while I began to think they knew something I didn't know! But I don't know, I just love living. And I love doing what I do.”

Source : Source: www.sfgate.com
“Even with or without the show I'm always thinking of the next thing. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. That's kind of been the story of my career.”
“My parents are the coolest of the cool on every single level, and it's because they have a deep appreciation for every moment of their lives.”
“Every physical system registers information, and just by evolving in time, by doing its thing, it changes that information, transforms that information, or, if you like, processes that information.”

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