Language And Thought Chomsky Quotes

#1. I try to shed what I've learned,
I try to forget the way I was taught to remember

Fernando Pessoa

#2. Contrary to popular view, I've never been patronized in the Middle East. Men maybe treat women differently, but they do not treat them with disrespect. They don't hate women. It's a very different kind of mentality.

Zaha Hadid

#3. The structure of language determines not only thought, but reality itself.

Noam Chomsky

#4. Your father died for me, and dying with you would be an honor, though not as great as dying to save you.

N.D. Wilson

#5. Every great work of art should be considered like any work of nature. First of all from the point of view of its aesthetic reality and then not just from its development and the mastery of its creation but from the standpoint of what has moved and agitated its creator.

Amedeo Modigliani

#6. I try to learn the most I can from every mistake.

Luis Gerardo Mendez

#7. I went back to graduate school with the clear intention that what I wanted to do with my life was to improve societies, and the way to do that was to find out what made economies work the way they did or fail to work.

Douglass North

#8. We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.

Joy Harjo

#9. Do I frighten you?' He tilted his head.
'Yes,' I said weakly. 'Are you proud of yourself?'
He looked at me for a long moment before replying. 'No, I'm not,' he said so faintly I had to strain to hear him.

Catherine Doyle

#10. And I understand you've got a few after-market add-ons - " "Keel-mounted rail gun," Alex said with a grin. " - that scream of overcompensating for tiny, tiny penises, but might prove useful. The

James S.A. Corey

#11. One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.

Ben Horowitz