#eve

There's been some research in cognitive science, I'm told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it's white noise. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#always #been #believe #cannot #cognitive

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#feelings #gentleman #hurts #never #who

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#chosen #many #more #none #people

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#always #love #marry #never #reason

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#device #efforts #generating #major #necessary

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#activities #consequences #even #group #individuals

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#history #like #more #never #things

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture. ↗

— Dee Hock

#every #furniture #mind #packed #room

And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh. ↗

— David Hockney

#another #corner #gogh #higher #higher level

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. ↗

— David Hockney

#every #finger #found #got #i