Benjamin Peirce Quotes
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
Benjamin Peirce
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Female can understand more detail and really care for the consequence and understand all the process.
Yingluck Shinawatra
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. Lewis
I'm still shocked when people say, 'You haven't done a studio record in 20 years.' I try to make excuses for it, but the truth is I just wasn't with it.
Ace Frehley
Kiss
When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.
Walter Lippmann
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
Laura Esquivel
If I have any advice to give to the Syrian president it is to cooperate for the sake of the investigation or for the sake of uncovering the truth.
Walid Jumblatt
For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
Vincent Bugliosi
When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.
Orlando Bloom
Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.
Karan Singh Grover
Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.
Ramana Maharshi
The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
Harold Prince
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
I hate and despise a shrewish suspicion of foreigners and foreign ways; a man who can look me in the face, laugh with me, speak truth and deal fairly, is my brother, though his skin is as black as ink or as yellow as an evening primrose.
H. G. Wells
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
Kanye West
And if you can find out something about the laws of your own growth and vision as well as those of photography you may be able to relate the two, create an object that has a life of its own, which transcends craftsmanship. That is a long road, and because it must be your own road nobody can teach it to you or find it for you. There are no shortcuts, no rules.
Paul Strand
It became inevitable that television would address life's mundane problems because television itself is so mundane, part of the ordinary flow of time the way those problems are.
Lee Siegel
Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth.
Benjamin Peirce