I like the scientific spirit–the holding off, the being sure but not too sure, the willingness to surrender ideas when the evidence is against them: this is ultimately fine–it always keeps the way beyond open–always gives life, thought, affection, the whole man, a chance to...
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Walt Whitman
On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death.. Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams...
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John Muir
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
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John F. Kennedy
The lampshade on my head is for my bright ideas. I won't be able to convey them until Monday, when my curtain gets out of the dry cleaners.
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Bauvard
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much.
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Criss Jami
More Quotes By Mark Van Doren
I have always had the greatest respect for students. There is nothing I hate more than condescension–the attitude that they are inferior to you. I always assume they have good minds.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.
For Tolstoy .. . anything that human beings do has its glory.. .. I think he can be said to have hated nothing that ever happened.
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
There is one thing we can do and the happiest people are those who do it to the limit of their ability. We can be completely present. We can be all here. We can ... give all our attention to the opportunity before us.
