Jostein Gaarder Quotes

Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

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• What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Desire
  • Space
  • Innovation

• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Dream
  • Years
  • Been

• I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Time
  • Eye

• With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • Thinking
  • Question
  • Design

• It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Science
  • Right
  • Scientific

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Better
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I love my sleep.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • I Love

• You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Past
  • Know
  • Survive

• I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
  • Cool
  • Jail

• How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Education
  • Support
  • Language

• I try to listen to my children. I try to change with my children.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Children
  • Change
  • Try

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Always
  • Island
  • Hawaii

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• I always felt that Jay Z, if he had a different upbringing, could be on Wall Street or in politics. If you really listen to Jay Z talk, he's kind of the smartest guy in the room.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Different
  • Guy
  • Kind

• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Love
  • Stories
  • Movies

• To be honest with you, I've been dying to do a nice indie feature - just something about a regular guy with a big quirk or a big emotional problem. Just something that's a straightforward, classic indie film. It sounds weird, but it's been easier for me to get cast in big tentpole films than the indie community. I'd love to do that.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Love
  • Guy
  • Community

• I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Guys
  • Sport
  • Beat

• Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Dream
  • The Beatles

• Dear Hilde, if the human brain was simple enough for us to understand, we would still be so stupid that we couldn't understand it. Love, Dad.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
  • Love
  • Stupid
  • Human Brain