T Quotes
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“The more I learn about myself, the more I understand you.”
“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
“The more I learn about stuff the more conscious I become of grave gaps in my knowledge.”
“The more I learn about the evolution of ideas, the more I have become aware that I am simply an unrepentant Old Whig-with the stress on the "old.”
“The more I learn about the human body, our environment, and the universe, the more it increases my faith.”
“The more I learn about the truth of human civilization, the freer I become from this fantasy world”
Source: Dy-nami
“The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all.”
“The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!”
“The more I learn of physics, the more I am drawn to metaphysics.”
“The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.”
“The more I learn, the less I realize I know.”
“The more I learn, the more excited I get.”
“The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.”
“The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.”
“The more I learned about pollinators, the more interested I became in the Queen of pollination: the 20,000 species of bees worldwide that are largely responsible for the seeds of rebirth of three-quarters of the flowering plants in the world. I discovered that assuming, as most people do, that "bee" equals "stinging honey bee" was even more ludicrous than assuming "dog" equals itty bitty Chihuahua.”
Source: Our Native Bees: North America's Endangered Pollinators and the Fight to Save Them
“The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.”
Source: The house of life: Rachel Carson at work
“The more I learned about the world I thought I knew and all the ones I didn't, the more everything threaded together, leading everywhere and nowhere at the same time.”
“The more I learned, the more I hated the Man and wanted to right the wrongs of Louisiana's modern-day slave masters. I sang Denvery's story like a songbird to anyone who would listen. Then one day, a thought hit me like a right cross to the head: My own granddaddy had not been so much different from the Man. Fairer, yes. An honest and decent man in the Texas of his day. But the wages he paid were still no excuse for the pitiful way we treated the folks who worked his land.”
Source: Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
“The more I learnt about this cheeky - almost rebellious - company, the more it appealed to me, as it unapologetically pointed to an alternative in a complacent and creatively bankrupt industry. Apple stood for something and had reason for being that wasn't just about making money.”
“The more I like a book, the more reluctant I am to turn the page. Lovers, even book lovers, tend to cling. No one-night stands or "reads" for them.”
“The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.”
“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.”
“The more I listen, the less I hate. The less I hate, the more I am free to chose actions that are controlled not by animosity, but by wisdom. Laboring to love my opponents is how I love myself.”
“The more I listen, the more I understand. I am persuaded that there are no monsters in this world, only human beings who are wounded.”
“The more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized that I had my own little thing that I could do.”
“the more i live, the more i realize what strange creatures human beings are. some of them might just as well have a hundred legs, like a centipede, or six, like a lobster. the human consistency and dignity one has been led to expect from one's fellow-man seem actually non-existent. one doubts if they exist to any startling degree even in oneself.”
Source: Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Banned Books: Lady Chatterley's Lover & Moll Flanders
“The more I live, the more I recognize that the teaching moments in my youth, especially those provided by my parents, have shaped my life and made me who I am. It is impossible to overestimate the influence of parents who understand the hearts of their children.”
“the more I live, the more I regret how little i know”
“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.”
“The more I live, the more I think, two people together is a miracle.”
Source: The Dream of a Common Language: Poems 1974-1977
“The more I lived with Jan, the more I loved her, the more I made her miserable. It was a vicious cycle (page 209)……The more I loved her the more I hated her. And the more she loved me, the more I harmed myself (page 269).”
“The more I look around and listen I realize that I'm not alone. We are all facing choices that define us. No choice. However messy is without importance in the overall picture of our lives. We all at our own age have to claim something, even if it's only our own confusion. I am in the middle of growing up and into myself.”
“The more I look at most of the art movements, it's all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.”
“The more I look at the world, the more I want to be stupid”
“The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles.”
“The more I looked at it, the less it seemed like something for a house. More like a tiny gravestone.”
Source: Heaven
“The more I looked at people, the more I hated them.”
“The more I looked, the more Christmasy it got.”
Source: Let It Snow
“The more I looked, the more I found Christian Atheists everywhere.”
“The more I lose, the more they believe they can beat me. But believing is not enough, you still have to beat me.”
“The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular.”
Source: GREAT BOOKS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
“The more I love nature the least I'm afraid to die.
I wouldn't mind being a part of the trees and the place that makes everything possible.”
“The more I love the character, the harder it is to get it wrong. I have to get to a point that I can speak for them.”
“The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.”
Source: On Writing
“The more I make stuff, the more I become aware of when I feel like I'm making bullshit or feel like I'm making something I can stand behind.”
“The more I make the more I can give away.”
“The more I move among workers and factories and other plants, the stronger I become convinced that it is advisable to have as [a company] president a practical man, preferably one who has risen from the very bottom of the ladder. Workmen, I find, have far more respect for such men than for collar-and-cuff executives knowing little or nothing about the different kinds of work which have to be done by the workers. Wherever circumstances call for placing a financier or lawyer or a papa's son at the head of a large organization, he should be made chairman or some other title, but not president.”
“The more I need my brain to be on top of its game, the higher the probability that it will freeze on me.”
Source: The Love Hypothesis
“The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles.”
“The more I paid attention, the more I noticed just how often 'apathy,' 'lack of feeling,' and the word 'sociopath' were associated with evil. Everywhere. From celebrated books like East of Eden and The Sociopath Next Door to award-winning films like The Silence of The Lambs and American Psycho, the 'sociopath' character composite was almost exclusively reserved for the 'bad' guys (and girls). These one-dimensional portrayals weren't limited to fiction, either. Anytime there was a sensational crime that captured national attention, or a politician who displayed callous indifference for their constituents, even respected journalists would to jump to invoke a diagnosis of 'sociopathy.' This despite having no training or qualifications to do so.”
Source: Sociopath