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.

Jostein Gaarder

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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
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• 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

• I wanna say thank you cause: Makes me that much stronger, makes me work a little bit harder. makes me that much wiser. so thanks for making me a fighter!

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Work
  • Thanks
  • Stronger

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Love
  • Friends
  • Enemies

• Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Love
  • Wisdom
  • Yoga

• People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

  

  Katherine Heigl
  • People
  • Believe
  • Bad

• 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