"If we could look through the skull into the brain of a consciously thinking person, and if the place of optimal excitability were luminous, then we should see playing over the cerebral surface, a bright spot with fantastic, waving borders constantly fluctuating in size and form, surrounded by a darkness more or less deep, covering the rest of the hemisphere."

-- Ivan Pavlov

#Thinking Quotes #Skulls Quotes #Darkness Quotes

“I learned the hard way. When I started hitting home runs, I thought, I can hit these pitches. Then I started thinking, if I can do this, I can hit the pitch four inches outside or four inches up. I expanded the zone and got myself out. Pitchers are smart. If they find out they don't have to throw strikes, they won't.”
“American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.”
“It's dogged as does it. It ain't thinking about it.”
“Different is good. When someone tells you that you are different, smile and hold your head up and be proud.”

Source : "Angelina Jolie Delivers Inspirational Speech to Misfit Kids Everywhere" By Nora Crotty, www.elle.com. March 29, 2015.
“How will it be with us in the future life, when everything that has gratified us in this world: riches, honors, food and drink, dress, beautifully furnished dwellings, and all attractive objects-how will it be, I say, when all these things leave us-when they will all seem to us a dream, and when works of faith and virtue, of abstinence, purity, meekness, humility, mercy, patience, obedience, and others will be required of us?”
“Increasingly, those who used to teach and write critical or theoretical texts are writing fiction, poetry and so on; and kinds of texts are being produced that call for budding readers rather different from those who studied literature in the past.”
“Life is about letting God use you for his purposes, not using him for your own purpose.”
“Patience is nobler motion than any deed.”

Source : "Radical Problems". Book by C. A. Bartol, 1872.

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