Because I don’t trust him, we are friends.
Bertolt Brecht 1898 - 1956
1898 - 1956
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The delusion that there are thousands of young people about who are capable of benefiting from university training, but have somehow failed to find their way there, is...a necessary component of the expansionist case....More will mean worse.
Sir Kingsley Amis 1922 - 1995
1922 - 1995
You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.
Robert Anton Wilson 1932 - 2007
1932 - 2007
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden 1907 - 1973
1907 - 1973
The point, being indivisible, occupies no space. That which occupies no space is nothing. The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
Someday death will take us to another star.
Vincent van Gogh 1853 - 1890
1853 - 1890
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.
Ray Bradbury
Dandelion Wine (1957)
Dandelion Wine (1957)
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Leonardo da Vinci 1452 - 1519
1452 - 1519
Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
Kate Moss born 1974
born 1974
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 - 1680
1613 - 1680
Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
John Dryden 1631 - 1700
1631 - 1700
Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.
Mother Teresa 1910 - 1997
1910 - 1997
Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.
François de La Rochefoucauld 1613 - 1680
1613 - 1680
God will pardon me. It is His trade.
Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856
Last words : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
1797 - 1856
Last words : Knowles, E. (1999). The Oxford dictionary of quotations. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
1903 - 1950
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen eighty-four. London: Secker & Warburg.
I think most of us if you were asked to name a very evil regime would think of Nazi Germany. … I wanted Harry to leave our world and find exactly the same problems in the Wizarding world. So you have to the intent to impose a hierarchy, you have bigotry, and this notion of purity, which is a great fallacy, but it crops up all over the world. People like to think themselves superior and that if they can pride themselves on nothing else, they can pride themselves on perceived purity. … The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry, and I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.
J. K. Rowling born 1965
born 1965
People are not stupid. They believe things for reasons. The last way for sceptics to get the attention of bright, curious, intelligent people is to belittle or condescend or to show arrogance toward their beliefs.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
1934 - 1996
In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.
Karl Popper 1902 - 1994
1902 - 1994
Age will not be defied.
Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
1561 - 1626
Excelling at chess has long been considered a symbol of more general intelligence. That is an incorrect assumption in my view, as pleasant as it might be.
Garry Kasparov born 1963
born 1963
I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen born 1935
born 1935
There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we're down the next day.
Carl Sagan 1934 - 1996
1934 - 1996
Boredom is an illness for which work is the remedy.
Pierre Marc Gaston de Lévis 1764 - 1830
1764 - 1830
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
Lewis Carroll 1832 - 1898
1832 - 1898
No one can advise or help you — no one. There is only one thing you should do. Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write.
Rainer Maria Rilke 1875 - 1926
1875 - 1926