Quotes of: Spencer Keyword

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

Clifford Geertz

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything.

Clifford Geertz

People keep asking how anthropology is different from sociology, and everybody gets nervous.

Clifford Geertz

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Clifford Geertz

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

Clifford Geertz

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.

Clifford Geertz

Love is an expression of power. We can use it to transform our world.

Ericka Huggins

Here before us was sufficient evidence to show that it really was an entrance to a tomb, and by the seals, to all outward appearances that it was intact.

Howard Carter

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.

John Shelton Reed

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Donald Johanson

I'm still heard on 1,500 radio stations across North America every day, about 220 million people a day in 150 countries.

James Dobson

Many of us think that compassion drains us, but I promise you it is something that truly enlivens us.

Joan Halifax

For me, Buddhism is a psychology and a philosophy that provides a means, upayas, for working with the mind.

Joan Halifax

Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.

Joan Halifax

In accounts of men in battle, there is an incredible adrenaline rush from group-versus-group conflict. The fervor and passion of partisans is clearly rewarding; and if it's rewarding, it involves dopamine; and if it involves dopamine, then it is pote...

Jonathan Haidt

Allowing our government to kill citizens compromises the deepest moral values upon which this country was conceived: the inviolable dignity of human persons.

Helen Prejean

Whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. Love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

Martha Beck

Mr. X: Well Henry, what do you know? Henry Spencer: Oh, I don't know much of anything.

Eraserhead

Mary X: You wouldn't mind marrying me, would you Henry? Henry Spencer: Well... No.

Eraserhead

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

Ellsworth Huntington

To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.

Edward Thorndike