"I'm beginning to be skeptical of my own skepticism."

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Source : Lilian Jackson Braun (1990). “The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts”, p.142, Penguin

Lilian Jackson Braun

#Skepticism Quotes #Skeptical Quotes

“The human race is just getting started.... The cerebral cortex is only a hundred thousand years old. It's still a baby, sucking teat and eating Cheerios. We might get better, maybe even wise, if we can last another thousand years.”

Source : Ellen Gilchrist (2008). “A Dangerous Age: A Novel”, p.11, Algonquin Books
“What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.”
“For some artists the live performance is the chicken before the egg of writing or recording of repertoire. For other artists the writing or recording of repertoire is the chicken before the egg of live performance.”
“I had been listening to Jackson Browne, The Eagles, and Linda Ronstadt. Ramones was not my kind of music. Now, I'm a huge fan and I get it. I wasn't initially a punk-rock fan. Now, I can appreciate what they stood for and who they were.”
“One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.”
“He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.”

Source : Mark Helprin (1983). “Winter's Tale”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.”
“I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself.”

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