Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

One of the most gratifying things I get as an artist is when people watch me do these different demonstrations, and they in some way feel empowered by what I'm doing so they can confront their own fears. Maybe it's the fear of getting in an elevator maybe it's the fear of going on a plane and seeing the world.

Criss Angel

The virtue of privacy is one that must be protected in matters that are intimate and within one's own family.

Tiger Woods

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Francis Quarles

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

David Rockefeller

I never look back, I look forward.

Steffi Graf

Nations, like men, have their infancy.

Henry Bolingbroke

Science is about knowing; engineering is about doing.

Henry Petroski

A phoneless cord is a great device for people who love peace and quiet.

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My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

Philip Zimbardo

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole -- so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

Willa Cather