#see

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#arises #experience #irrelevant #larger #perhaps

The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves. ↗

— James K. Polk

#among #congress #create #disreputable #embarrasses

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world of our experience that we're seeking to describe. ↗

— John Polkinghorne

#describe #experience #i #knowledge #our

I have had the good fortune to see how my articles have directly benefited some farmers and helped build markets for their products in a way that preserves land from development. That makes me a hopeless optimist. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#benefited #build #development #directly #farmers

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#god #hears #him #indian #mind

I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#everything #i #like #maybe #nothing

I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers. ↗

— Zac Posen

#best #fashion #i #i think #make

Each work seems to give me the most trouble at the time I'm working on it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#give #give me #i #me #most

Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. ↗

— Beatrix Potter

#bed #cotton #every #eye #fells

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#much #obscure #see #to love #too