In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. —Nicholas Chamfort More about this quote Tags: reality posturing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations from Nicholas Chamfort An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. —Nicholas Chamfort More about this quote Tags: economics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. —Nicholas Chamfort More about this quote Tags: economics Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “reality” One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: reality science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: reality science evidence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude existence thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. —Philip K. Dick More about this quote Tags: delusion reality belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude memory past perception bounty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have. —Albert Einstein More about this quote Tags: reality science Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give the physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: reality science evidence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. —Albert Schweitzer More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude existence thought Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. —Philip K. Dick More about this quote Tags: delusion reality belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way. —John Steinbeck More about this quote Tags: reality gratitude memory past perception bounty Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email