Karl Popper Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
-
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
-
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
-
Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
-
A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
-
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
-
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
-
I want to do good for Israel. My philosophy is let's do good stuff, and let's see what happens. And que sera, sera.
-
When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
-
Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
-
I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
-
My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
-
Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
-
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
-
The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
-
For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
-
The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
-
You can't be the vulnerable, transparent, raw person required to be an artist, and then cover that stuff up and meet the world with some kind of armor on. It just doesn't go.
-
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace.
-
Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He be glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
-
As part of the E.U., my children can have the freedom and the opportunity to work and live across Europe; to be ambitious in the world's largest market; and to access so much of the history, the culture and the opportunity which is our common European heritage.
-
I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
-
My kids are all pretty big and tough and strong, and I don't worry about them being bullied - the reverse, be kind to people and don't ever be a bully yourself, and I think they've followed that.
-
True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it.
