"When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas."

-- David Brooks

#Character Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.”
“Two went to pray? Better to say one went to brag, the other to pray.”
“I was 12 when my parents told me we were moving to Lebanon. I remember thinking, 'Leba-who?' I had absolutely no concept of the place.”
“Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in.”
“The Qur'an does not ask for human perfection, but rather asks that we persevere in striving for self-improvement and that we never become complacent or despondent about our progress.”

Source : Jeffrey Lang (1997). “Even Angels Ask: A Journey to Islam in America”
“Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.”

Source : Alice Hamilton, (2013). “Exploring the Dangerous Trades - The Autobiography of Alice Hamilton, M.D.”, p.97, Read Books Ltd
“Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“Every man feels that perception gives him an invincible belief of the existence of that which he perceives; and that this belief is not the effect of reasoning, but the immediate consequence of perception. When philosophers have wearied themselves and their readers with their speculations upon this subject, they can neither strengthen this belief, nor weaken it; nor can they shew how it is produced. It puts the philosopher and the peasant upon a level; and neither of them can give any other reason for believing his senses, than that he finds it impossible for him to do otherwise.”

Source : Thomas Reid (1846). “The Works of Thomas Reid, D. D.: Now Fully Collected, with Selections from His Unpublished Letters”, p.309

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