"I'm somewhat horrified because I don't think the young people today even know what history is. Some of them don't' even study History at school anymore or Geography and they don't know where one place is from another."

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Joan Sutherland

#School Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“If you want an honest dialogue, you can't criticize someone for what they say. You can't teach someone to think in a certain way.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“People take the longest possible paths, digress to numerous dead ends, and make all kinds of mistakes. Then historians come along and write summaries of this messy, nonlinear process and make it appear like a simple, straight line.”
“Just as the line of astronomical thinkers from Copernicus to Newton had destroyed the old astronomy, in which the earth was the center, and the Almighty sitting above the firmament the agent in moving the heavenly bodies about it with his own hands, so now a race of biological thinkers had destroyed the old idea of a Creator minutely contriving and fashioning all animals to suit the needs and purposes of man.”

Source : Andrew Dickson White (2012). “A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom: From Creation to the Victory of Scientific and Literary Methods”, p.49, Transaction Publishers
“Today you will envy the blessings of another, or you will bask in the wonder of the amazing grace you have been given.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paul David Tripp from Feb 21, 2014
“Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.”
“To everything there is a season.”

Source : Pete Seeger (2013). “The Pete Seeger Reader”, p.12, Oxford University Press
“Sometimes I think I am going mad. I live for days in the mystery and tears of things so that the commonest object, the most familiar face- even my own- become ghostly, unreal, enigmatic. I get into an attitude of almost total scepticism, nescience, solipsism, in a world of dumb, sphinx-like things that cannot explain themselves. The discovery of how I am situated- a sentient being on a globe in space overshadows me. I wish I were just nothing.”

Source : W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”
“There's nothing wrong with sending a quick note if you're busy or just want to flirt, but it's hard to have any real interaction over text. In the buffet of communication, text messaging should be a side dish, not the entree.”

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