Quotes about "Diversity & Inclusion"

There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact. ”

When Landon Carter, a Virginia plantation owner, read the Declaration of Independence two days after it was issued, he wondered whether its ringing affirmation of equality meant that slaves must be freed. If so, he confided to his diary, 'You must send them out of the country, or they must steal for their support.' ”

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within. ”

If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals. ”

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. ”

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. ”

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. ”

Exploring is an innate part of being human. We're all explorers when we're born. Unfortunately, it seems to get drummed out of many of us as we get older, but it's there, I think, in all of us. And for me that moment of discovery is just so thrilling, on any level, that I think anybody that's experienced it is pretty quickly addicted to it. ”

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed. ”

There's a lot of politics in football, and sometimes the real values of the sport, those human values, get lost. ”