#elves

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

#flatter #human #human language #ideas #language

In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds. ↗

— David Blaine

#capacity #each #imposed #minds #only

For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves, we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#birth #death #did #guests #may

It's rural America. It's where I came from. We always refer to ourselves as real America. Rural America, real America, real, real, America. ↗

— Dan Quayle

#america #came #i #i came #ourselves

When public men indulge themselves in abuse, when they deny others a fair trial, when they resort to innuendo and insinuation, to libel, scandal, and suspicion, then our democratic society is outraged, and democracy is baffled. ↗

— J. William Fulbright

#baffled #democracy #democratic #democratic society #deny

Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#basic #basic research #learn #ourselves #research

How many of you have broken no laws this month? That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. ↗

— John Gilmore

#build #communications #give #guarantee #how

Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society. ↗

— Taylor Hackford

#get #lower #out #people #rung

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love. ↗

— Nhat Hanh

#ignore #know #love #love is #needs

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. ↗

— Carl Jung

#anything #better #changed #child #could