Bertrand Russell Quotes
Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.Bertrand Russell
Quotes to Explore
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
Orison Swett Marden -
Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
Zainab Salbi -
I think in this, definitely, because you are feeling how it felt to live in a completely different time. The mannerisms and the way that people behaved was quite different.
Radha Mitchell -
People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.
Yelawolf -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
Abhishek Bachchan
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
Quincy Jones -
Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
Nancy Roman -
The public makes it so that we have to keep assaulting each other.
Ja Rule -
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
Quincy Jones -
This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.
Barack Obama -
With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
Viggo Mortensen
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
Sam Kean -
We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
Calvin Coolidge -
Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
A.J. Styles -
Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.
Karl Abraham -
I draw every day - unless I'm being interviewed.
Quentin Blake -
People understand that nuclear weapons cannot be used without indiscriminate effects on civilian populations. Such weapons have no legitimate place in our world. Their elimination is both morally right and a practical necessity in protecting humanity.
Ban Ki-moon
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On my first European solo tour, I was selling maybe 50 tickets a city until I showed up in Paris and heard the show was already at 150 tickets, which, at the time, really blew my mind and took me by complete surprise.
Kevin Morby -
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Oscar Wilde -
Primum est igitur ut apud nos valeant ea quae valere apud iudicem volumus, adficiamurque antequam adficere conemur.
Quintilian -
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
Helen Gurley Brown -
I'm incredibly enthusiastic about the normalization, I think it's very promising. But I do think there are some worrisome aspects.
Rachael Price -
Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.
Bertrand Russell