1471 Benjamin Quotes

#1. For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping.

Peter Medawar

#2. There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions but lack the all-important images to help us identify them.

Alain De Botton

#3. Perception is a fantasy that coincides with reality. - Christ Firth, from Making Up the Mind: How the Brain Creates Our Mental World

Alberto Cairo

#4. I've always liked to think that we put ourselves in the circumstances in life that will support us moving through to wherever it is our spirit is going.

John Denver

#5. He objected, though, to indiscriminate reading. 'One must have some question,' he wrote, 'addressed to the book one is going to read.

Pyotr Kropotkin

#6. Hegel was the first to state correctly the relation between freedom and necessity. To him, freedom is the insight into necessity.

Friedrich Engels

#7. Sometimes one mistake ruins the whole thing.

Janice Liang

#8. You don't have to tell me everything right away, but I have to tell you everything right away? Can't you see how stupid that is?

Veronica Roth

#9. When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

Zoe Kazan

#10. How would I behave in a situation that caused me to summon the essence of my character? The tragedy inspired me to test myself. I wanted to reveal to myself who I was: the kind of person who died, or the kind of person who overcame circumstances to help himself and others

Aron Ralston