"Failure to believe stems from moral failure to recognize the truth, not from want of evidence, but from willful neglect or distortion of the evidence."

-- D. A. Carson

#Believe Quotes #Want Quotes #Moral Quotes

“It's so much harder than it looks - to conjure a fictional world that some passing wolf of skepticism can't just blow down in one breath.”
“No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed.”
“You ought to love what you're doing because, especially in a movie, over time you really will start to hate it.”
“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.”
“So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that are lower or less rational. A free discipline controls the individual by appealing to his reason and conscience, and therefore to his self-respect; while an unfree control works upon some lower phase of the mind, and so tends to degrade him. It is freedom to be disciplined in as rational a manner as you are fit for.”
“They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.”
“We next consider the rule that the investor does or should consider expected return a desirable thing and variance of return an undesirable thing.”

Source : Harry Markowitz (2009). “Harry Markowitz: Selected Works”, p.15, World Scientific
“UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.”

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