I Can Quotes - Page 24

• I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

  Randolph M. Nesse

  Believe, Science, People

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• I think memories are like dreams. Not reliable proof of anything. I can't prove a memory any more than I can prove a dream.

  Susanna Moore

  Dream, Memories, Thinking

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• Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Law, Intellectual, Curiosity

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

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• Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

  Gunter Grass

  Lying, Believe, Grateful

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• My ultimate goal is to spend as many of my moments in life as I can in that world that the poet Rumi talks about, 'a place beyond rightness and wrongness.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Goal, World

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2004). “Getting Past the Pain Between Us: Healing and Reconciliation Without Compromise”, p.23, PuddleDancer Press

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• 'Believing' cannot tip the scales in making a historical judgement about whether something really happened. I can choose to believe that George Washington threw a silver dollar across the Rappahannock, but my believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether or not he really did do it. So also with the story of Jesus walking on water: Believing that he did it has nothing to do with whether he really did do it. 'Belief' cannot be the basis for historical conclusions; it has no direct relevance.

  Marcus Borg

  Faith, Jesus, Believe

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• The one experience that I hope every student has at some point in their lives is to have some belief you profoundly, deeply hold, proved to be wrong because that is the most eye-opening experience you can have, and as a scientist, to me, is the most exciting experience I can ever have.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Faith, Hope, Eye

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• The world looks a totally different place after two wins. I can even enjoy watching Blind Date or laugh at Noel's House Party.

  Gordon Strachan

  Party, Winning, Two

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• If i believed in an outside force that we wanted to call God - and i believe that there is one. i think God would appreciate what i say, because i can't see God wanting to create a world full of idiots

  Marilyn Manson

  Atheist, Believe, Thinking

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• The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Time, Book, Writing

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• If I can't picture it, I can't understand it.

  Albert Einstein

  Math, Science, Statistics

  "Profile: Physicist John A. Wheeler, Questioning the 'It from Bit'" by John Horgan, Scientific American, pp. 36-37, June 1991.

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• Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

  George Harrison

  Doors, Going Out, Earth

  Song: The Inner Light

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• I am a man of prayer and meditation. I feel inspiration is of paramount importance. If I can inspire someone, and if that person also can inspire me, then we can do many good things for the betterment of this world.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Prayer, Inspiration, Men

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• I can’t imagine what my school friends must have thought was going on because I was wandering around in some kind of dream. I felt as though my insides had been taken out which is, I now realize, the right feeling.

  Simon Rattle

  Dream, Taken, School

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• Doctor, I can't pronounce my F's, T's and H's.” “Well you can't say fairer than that then

  Tommy Cooper

  Doctors, Wells

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• Why kill you when I can just not teach you and get the same results?

  Lupe Fiasco

  Results, Teach

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• I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt, not that fancy store-bought dirt... I can't compete with that stuff.

  Matt Groening

  Fancy, Stuff, Dirt

  "The Simpsons: Team Homer". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• I have made it a rule of my life to trust a man long after other people gave him up, but I don't see how I can ever trust any human being again.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Trust, Men, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Government power must be dispersed. If government is to exercise power, better in the county than in the state, better in the state than in Washington. If I do not like what my local community does, be it in sewage disposal, or zoning, or schools, I can move to another local community, and though few may take this step, the mere possibility acts as a check. If I do not like what Washington imposes, I have few alternatives in this world of jealous nations.

  Milton Friedman

  Moving, School, Jealous

  Milton Friedman (2009). “Capitalism and Freedom: Fortieth Anniversary Edition”, p.3, University of Chicago Press

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• I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by them, to be understood and touched by them.

  Virginia Satir

  Love, Believe, Heard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I own me, and therefore, I can engineer me. I am me, and I am Okay.

  Virginia Satir

  Okay, Engineers

  Virginia Satir (1988). “The new peoplemaking”, Science & Behavior Books

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• In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances, and only two adults other than my teachers who spoke without embarrassment of poetry and literature — both of these being women. As far as I can recall, I never heard a man refer to a good or a great book. I knew no one who had mastered, or even studied, another language from choice. And our articulate, conscious life proceeded without acknowledgement of the preceding civilisations which had produced it.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Teacher, Art, Book

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• What you think now about the cross of Christ, I cannot tell; but I can wish you nothing better than this - that you may be able to say with the apostle Paul, before you die or meet the Lord, 'God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.'

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Thinking, Wish

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.188, Ravenio Books

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• I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

  Amy Hempel

  Sleep, Glasses, Water

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

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• At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.

  Pema Chodron

  Mistake, Compassion, Self

  Pema Chodron (2007). “No Time to Lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.38, Shambhala Publications

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