#thou

Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements. ↗

— Chauncey Wright

#belief #confidence #degree #evidence #high

The bicycle is a former child's toy that has now been elevated to icon status because, presumably, it can move the human form from pillar to post without damage to the environment. ↗

— Brock Yates

#been #bicycle #child #damage #elevated

I kind of remember a friend of mine saying, like, you guys should make a rap record. You know, because we were already making punk records. We were a punk band. And I kind of thought, that's crazy. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#band #because #crazy #friend #guys

It just seemed like Buddhism, especially Tibetan Buddhism - because that's mainly what I've been exposed to - was a real solid organization of teachings to point someone in the right direction. Some real well thought out stuff. But I don't know, like, every last detail about Buddhism. ↗

— Adam Yauch

#because #been #buddhism #detail #direction

It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though! ↗

— Roberta Williams

#even #exceed #hard #hard work #lot

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#beautiful #born #know #labor #must

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#does #hours #line #maybe #moment

It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#deprived #encourage #especially #every #fresh

Now a movie with 30 million returns would be something very incredible and the producer can only get 10 to 15 million. This is only 100 thousands US dollars. This is not enough! ↗

— Zhang Yimou

#enough #get #incredible #million #movie