"Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity."

-- Helen Keller

#Eye Quotes #Voice Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in terms of what is considered fine art, by comparison with something like a comic book or what's considered low art - is that painting should open up laterally to include other cultures and things that don't immediately resonate as a painting but are obviously of equal contribution to the genre.”

Source : Interview with Rachel Kushner, www.believermag.com. May 2003.
“Be as decent as you can. Don't believe without evidence. Treat things divine with marked respect â€” don't have anything to do with them. Do not trust humanity without collateral security; it will play you some scurvy trick. Remember that it hurts no one to be treated as an enemy entitled to respect until he shall prove himself a friend worthy of affection. Cultivate a taste for distasteful truths. And, finally, most important of all, endeavor to see things as they are, not as they ought to be.”

Source : Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi (2000). “The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce”, p.15, Ohio State University Press
“Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.”
“We are involved in youth testing internationally. We want to try to prove without a shadow of a doubt the relationship between physical fitness and health, not just physical fitness and ability to perform.”
“Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.”
“It's what I like to call the horizontal Jesus. Vertical Jesus are the songs that say 'Lord I love you, Lord I praise you, Lord I thank you' and horizontal is 'I'm in a situation. This is the problem. How can I apply that now horizontally?' There are more problems in the world because he's not being applied horizontally.”
“Stats are for losers. I like winning games.”
“apparent contradiction ... is often the opportunity for new discovery in science; and it even may be said that the absence of apparent contradiction is due to our want of perception, since our knowledge of laws and causes is so small compared to their total sum.”

Source : Margaret Benson (1908). “The Venture of Rational Faith”

You may also like:

Amelia Earhart
Aviator
Anne Bancroft
Actress
Anne Frank
Author
Anne Sullivan Macy
Teacher
Louis Braille
Inventor
Mother Teresa
Saint
Patty Duke
Actress
Rosa Parks
Activist
Stephen Hawking
Physicist