“In statistics, what disappears behind rows of numbers is death.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 163 of 313
“Nearly every major breakthrough innovation has been preceded by a string of failed or misguided executions.”
“Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.”
“My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.”
“How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings”
“That's an inspiration for all women to see a woman thinking and moving differently from those around her.”
“From an outsider's perspective, it's amazing what [Clint Eastwood] does. If he's not directing a film, he's acting in it, or rather he's composing the music for that film. His commitment to what he does is astounding for all of us to witness. It's inspiring, actually.”
“The proof that a philosopher does not know what he is talking about is apt to sadden his followers before it reacts on himself.”
“I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know its friends from its foes, and I lost all my remaining respect for it, and pitied it.”
“Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.”
“The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.”
“It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.”
“My opposition to war is not based upon pacifist or non-resistant principles. It may be that the present state of civilization is such that certain international questions cannot be discussed; it may be that they have to be fought out. But the fighting never settles the question. It only gets the participants around to a frame of mind where they will agree to discuss what they were fighting about.”
“Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering hordes! How shall learning perish? Men will cease to read, and books will kindle fires and be turned into cartridges.”
“We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.”
“The cancer of time is eating us away”
“Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back upon it.”
“Consider anything, only don’t cry!”
“It’s a miserable story!” said Bruno. “It begins miserably, and it ends miserablier. I think I shall cry. Sylvie, please lend me your handkerchief.” “I haven’t got it with me,” Sylvie whispered. “Then I won’t cry,” said Bruno manfully.”
“On any Tuesday morning, if asked, a good working scientist will tell you with some self-satisfaction that the affairs of his field are nicely in order, that things are finally looking clear and making sense, and all is well. But come back again on another Tuesday, and the roof may have just fallen in on his life's work.”