Cameron Stumpf > Cameron's Quotes

“The question is not, who uses faith and who uses reason? Everyone uses both. The question instead should be, who has the most reasonable faith?”
― J.F. Baldwin

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.”
― Richard Feynman

“If you thought that science was certain - well, that is just an error on your part.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“Mathematics is a language plus reasoning; it is like a language plus logic. Mathematics is a tool for reasoning.”
― Richard P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law

“Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of certainty -- some most unsure, some nearly sure, none absolutely certain.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“You become like what you worship. When you gaze in awe, admiration, and wonder at something or someone, you begin to take on something of the character of the object of your worship.”
― N.T. Wright, Simply Christian

“Once you know the dark side of your personality, simply give God consent to do for you what you’ve never been able to do for yourself, namely, bring meaningful and lasting change to your life.”
― Ian Morgan Cron, The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery

“You and I keep looking for light in the darkness, expecting it to appear. But it already has.” I touch his shoulder. “We’re it, boyo. Broken and cracked and stupid as we are, we’re the light, and we’re spreading.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“Friendships take minutes to make, moments to break, years to repair.”
― Pierce Brown, Golden Son

“Feelings don't try to kill you, even the painful ones. Anxiety is a feeling grown too large. A feeling grown aggressive and dangerous. You're responsible for its consequences, you're responsible for treating it. But...you're not responsible for causing it. You're not morally at fault for it. No more than you would be for a tumor.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“You always assume you're the least-wanted person there. The one everyone else could do without.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“Everything's always ending. But everything's always beginning, too.”
― Patrick Ness, The Rest of Us Just Live Here

“It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind

“A good listener is a witness, not a judge of your experience.”
― Michael P Nichols, The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships

“We’re most reactive to the things we secretly accuse ourselves of.”
― Michael P. Nichols, The Lost Art of Listening: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships

“If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

“Metaphor is thus imaginative rationality.”
― George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By

“Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of which we both think and act, is fundamentally metaphorical in nature.”
― George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By

“Aristotle, on the other hand, saw poetry as having a positive value: “It is a great thing, indeed, to make proper use of the poetic forms, . . . But the greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor” (Poetics 1459a); “ordinary words convey only what we know already; it is from metaphor that we can best get hold of something fresh” (Rhetoric 1410b).”
― George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By

“The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.”
― George Lakoff, Metaphors We Live By