Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
—George Santayana
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
—Robert Frost
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.
—Will Cuppy
You create your own reality.
—Jane Roberts
People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
—Samuel Butler
Old age was growing inside me. It kept catching my eye from the depths of the mirror. I was paralyzed sometimes as I saw it making its way toward me so steadily when nothing inside me was ready for it.
—Simone de Beauvoir
I do not know which makes a man more conservative—to know nothing but the present, or nothing but the past.
—John Maynard Keynes
People always put their own spin on things, remember what they want to remember, and somewhere in the middle of it all is the truth—the real version.
—Jessi Kirby in Golden
I do not believe in God, but I have a sense of the infinite.
—Robert Desnos
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
—Hermann Hesse
There is this idea now in this country that all people who succeed, succeed on their own, and all people who fail, fail on their own, whereas neither is true. The vast majority of people in this country stay where they're born. Very few people move too far from home. Rich people rarely become poor, and poor people rarely become rich. But we live in a society ruled by anecdote, so that we have no sense at all of what actually happens to most people.
—Fran Lebowitz
Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.
—Gaston Bachelard
That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.
—Aldous Huxley
At 18 our convictions are hills from which we look; At 45 they are caves in which we hide.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter.
—Shalom Aleichem