Doe Quotes
The sage is sharp but does not cut, pointed but does not pierce, forthright but does not offend, bright but does not dazzle.
The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form.
What is precious inside us does not care to be known by the mind in ways that diminish its presence.
He who does not see the kingdom of heaven in this life will never see it in the coming life.
A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!
The purpose of a system is what it does. There is after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do.
Think about the whole world of biological complex sciences. We still don't understand the way a protein folds the way it does.
Television is teaching all the time. Does more educating than the schools and all the institutions of higher learning.
The government does not add value to the economy. It removes value from the economy by imposing taxes on one citizen and providing cash to another.
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.
The Bible never belittles human disappointment ... but it does add one key word: temporary.
People are unlikely to know that they need a product which does not exist and the basis of market research in new and innovative products is limited in this regard.
He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end.
Meaninglessness does not come from being weary of pain. Meaninglessness comes from being weary of pleasure.
"We see the world as 'we' are, not as 'it' is; because it is the "I" behind the 'eye' that does the seeing."
The way that we see things today does not have to be the way we saw them yesterday. This is because the situations, our relationships to them, ad we ourselves have changed in the interim.
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public.
Art has this ability to allow you to connect back through history in the same way that biology does. I'm always looking for source material.
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.
The fact that mathematics does such a good job of describing the Universe is a mystery that we don't understand. And a debt that we will probably never be able to repay.
There are hazards in everything one does, but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.
Perfection does not consist in macerating or killing the body, but in killing our perverse self-will.
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.
Every generation is confronted anew with the task not to look the other way when injustice occurs. ... Everyone is responsible for what he does and co-responsible for what he lets happen.
Any model we make does not describe the universe it describes what our brains are capable of saying at this time.
The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
He that has his trust set upon God does not need to dread anything except the weakening or the paralyzing of that trust.
Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?’ ‘You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.
And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst
The more virtuous any man is, the less easily does he suspect others to be vicious.