A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Johan Huizinga

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Georg Simmel

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
Mel Torme

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.
Louis Leakey

If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
Karl Jaspers

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.
Jim Garrison

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister Eckhart

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Vernon Howard

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.
Kathleen Kenyon

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt

The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft

The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.
Annie Dillard

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
Louis Leakey