"It is morally as bad not to care whether a thing is true or not, so long as it makes you feel good, as it is not to care how you got your money as long as you have got it."

-- Edwin Way Teale

#Science Quotes #Long Quotes #Feel Good Quotes

“Nothing remains intact without effort. Repetition of formulas does not assure the transmission of thought. It is not safe to entrust a doctrinal treasure to the passivity of memory. Intelligence must play a part in its conservation, rediscovering it, so to speak, in the process.”

Source : Henri de Lubac (1987). “Paradoxes of Faith”, p.23, Ignatius Press
“I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.”
“It is not easy to be honest because it is impossible to be complete.”

Source : Ariana Reines (2006). “The Cow”
“all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.”
“You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.”

Source : Gail Sheehy (1971). “Speed is of the Essence”, Richmond Hill, Ont. : Simon & Schuster of Canada
“I didn't want people to think I'm just in the movies, where you make money and wait around for 13 hours before you get to do 20 minutes of work.”
“America betrays its friends. It sets them up and betrays them. I'd rather be America's enemy.”

Source : "Where Plan A Left Ahmad Chalabi" by Dexter Filkins, New York Times Magazine, November 5, 2006.
“Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.”

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