States Permit

Famous quotes containing the words states and/or permit:

    We cannot feel strongly toward the totally unlike because it is unimaginable, unrealizable; nor yet toward the wholly like because it is stale—identity must always be dull company. The power of other natures over us lies in a stimulating difference which causes excitement and opens communication, in ideas similar to our own but not identical, in states of mind attainable but not actual.
    Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)

    Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs.
    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)