“ What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room. ”
- Lisa Alther- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. ”
- A. S. W. Rosenbach- Copy
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“ The present moment is significant, not as the bridge between past and future, but by reason of its contents, which can fill our emptiness and become ours, if we are capable of receiving them. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
- 3.3K
“ The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 3.1K
“ The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ”
- H.P. Lovecraft- Copy
- 2K
“ It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. Too many men slip early out of the habit of studious reading, and yet that is essential. ”
- Sir William Osler- Copy
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“ Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents. ”
- Arthur Schopenhauer- Copy
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“ The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing… ”
- Emma Jung- Copy
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“ Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze. ”
- James Joseph Sylvester- Copy
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“ Faith is something we grow into; doubt is something we grow out of. Gradually. And the movement is not always forward — out of doubt into faith. It is a line that wavers. As the picture a partially filled cup, we sometimes speculate: is the cup half full, or half empty? If we see faith as the contents of the cup, is it half full of faith, or half full of doubt? And if we look at the cup — our experience — and see one-half doubt, is doubt all we see? As God looks at the half-full, half-empty cup, what does He see? The doubt? Or the faith? Or, if faith is nearly a tiny seed — say, a mustard seed — can God see it? Is He moved by it? Or is He too busy gazing at the ample doubt that may surround that speck of faith? We know the answer: God sees such faith… ”
- James Long- Copy
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“ If the bookseller happens to desire a privilege for his merchandise, whether he is selling Rabelais or the Fathers of the Church, the magistrate grants the privilege without answering for the contents of the book. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
- 1.6K
“ It even looks exactly like a real book, with pages and print and dust jacket and everything. This disguise is extremely clever, considering the contents: the longest lounge act never performed in the history of the Catskills. ”
- Paul Gray- Copy
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“ The painter … does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paint box and its inherited contents. ”
- Annie Dillard- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Isn't that the problem? That women have been swindled for centuries into substituting adornment for love, fashion for passion? All the cosmetics names seemed obscenely obvious to me in their promises of sexual bliss. They were all firming or uplifting or invigorating… ”
- Erica Jong- Copy
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“ In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment of the present where life quivers in its true sense. The past and the future are both rolled up in this present moment of illumination, and this present moment is not something standing still with all its contents, for it ceaselessly moves on. ”
- Daisetz T. Suzuki- Copy
- 90
“ A friend is one to whom we may pour out the contents of our hearts, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ”
- Arabian Definition- Copy
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