Carl Sagan Quotes

Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

Carl Sagan

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• The poem 'What Teachers Make' is not without its detractors. This one person wrote to me and said: 'Gee, Mr. Mali. You don't possibly have a teacher – God complex, do you?' And that was the first time I'd ever heard of that expression. So, yeah, I'm sure I have a teacher – God complex.

  

  Taylor Mali
  • Time
  • God
  • Person

• It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Life
  • Scars
  • Shallow

• I focus on supporting high quality early childhood health care and education. By betting my resources on very young children, I know I'm making an investment that pays guaranteed dividends with a high rate of return.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Children
  • High
  • Education

• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
  • Mystery

• How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Men
  • Man
  • Victory

• I am gay, and I'm very comfortable with it.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Gay
  • Comfortable

• Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Logic

• Are the last days near, perhaps? I have forgotten your lessons, prattlers and false prophets, but you haven't forgotten me. As the future ripens in the past, so the past rots in the future - a terrible festival of dead leaves.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Future
  • Past

• YouTube's algorithm doesn't know what's going on in the world.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • World

• I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.

  

  Maria Sharapova
  • Time
  • Good
  • Friends

• I love playing the bad girl.

  

  Kristen Renton
  • Bad
  • Girl

• My mom is really skinny, too. I got it from her. I've never done yoga before.

  

  Bregje Heinen
  • Done
  • Mom
  • Yoga

• Congress suffers a great deal of criticism for its partisan acrimony. But while we may disagree politically, and air our opposition in this chamber, it is the conversation behind the scenes that cements and defines our relationships.

  

  Kay Bailey Hutchison
  • Great
  • May
  • Air

• The weird thing is that working within an established story was actually kind of liberating. You know the beginning and middle and end, more or less, so there's less pressure to figure all that out.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Beginning
  • Weird

• Every White House Correspondents' Dinner for the past three years, I have broken my dress and can't even zip it, so we have to leave - that's why I've missed every carpet appearance. One time, we had to go into Virginia to find me a new dress.

  

  Chrissy Teigen
  • Time
  • Why
  • House

• If things don't work out with one person, there's many other people to replace you with online.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • People
  • Work

• By the God of thy Father who shall help thee, and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.

  

  John Pearson
  • God
  • Help
  • Father

• I take people very seriously. People are all I take seriously, in fact. Therefore, I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave - and nothing but laughter to console them with.

  

  John Irving
  • People
  • Laughter
  • Sympathy

• I remember myself, age five, sitting on a porch overlooking a very muddy road. The day was rainy. I was wearing rubber boots, yellow - no, not yellow, green - and for all I know, I'm still there.

  

  Joseph Brodsky
  • Remember
  • Age
  • Road

• The biggest challenge in making movies, boring but true answer is money - you never have enough, so everything gets bootstrapped to death! I learned not only how to be better filmmakers because of it but better janitors, better drivers and better negotiators with cops who wanted to shut me down. You have to get creative.

  

  Negin Farsad
  • Money
  • Movie
  • Creative

• The 'passion for incredulity' can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Believe
  • Passion
  • Deception

• It is nothing short of deception and lies to portray this deal as strengthening the union (between Northern Ireland and Britain), ... complete and total sellout of our province.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Short
  • Deception
  • Portray

• The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Laugh
  • Deception
  • Treason

• Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Deception