“You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.”— Jordan B. Peterson, amazon.com
“I know you better than you know yourself, but you don't know me at all.”— Joseph Weisberg, Joel Fields, imdb.com
“The only reason I don't shoot you has nothing to do with duty or principle. It's simply a matter of knowing who I am.”— Michael Ferris, Peter Chung, John D. Brancato, Steve De Jarnatt, Æon Flux, Denise Poirier, imdb.com
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise and rudely great: With too much knowledge for the Sceptic side, With too much weakness for the Stoic's pride, He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest; In do…”— Alexander Pope, gutenberg.org
“I feel like my life has taken a turn. I'm heading down a road I've never been on before. Nothing is familiar. The signs don't make sense. Do I get off the road, or do I keep riding? The people that I see aren't the people i know. Do I go alone or take others with me? Who do I trust and who do I not?…”— Kurt Sutter, Jax Teller, Charlie Hunnam, imdb.com
“This biological, evolutionary connection for women of possible ecstasy to emotional security has implications that cannot be overstressed. Relaxing allows for female arousal.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“The female body reacts in the same way to “bad stress” whether the context is the birthing room or the university or the workplace. If the female brain senses that an environment is not safe, its stress response inhibits all the same organs and systems, regardless of setting.”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Female sexual pleasure, rightly understood, is not just about sexuality, or just about pleasure. It serves, also, as a medium of female self-knowledge and hopefulness; female creativity and courage; female focus and initiative; female bliss and transcendence; and as medium of a sensibility that feel…”— Naomi Wolf, amazon.com
“Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com