Wislawa Szymborska Quotes

Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

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• It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Business
  • You
  • Advertising

• I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Thinking
  • Dream
  • Free

• Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Remember
  • Instances
  • Coincidences

• I always play women I would date.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Women
  • Play
  • Dating

• The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on these matters, but it has also influenced the thinking of legislators all over the world.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Political

• Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Truth

• I'm not always what I think I am, but I am what I think.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Thinking

• Right now, the biggest shared value that I can think of is that you should treat others the way you want to be treated, and just have some good sense about what matters to you.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Good
  • Value
  • Sense

• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Education
  • Confidence
  • Ability

• If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Kindness
  • Records

• We strive towards a better world, but one can never do it without compromise. We can all change the world for the better, starting in your own little surroundings, together with people who believe in it, too. This way you can make it work and show others that it actually can work. That doesn't mean that everybody has to do it like you "or else..." If there is no compromise possible, then it turns into extremism, and I don't think that extremism ever added something positive to the world.

  

  G.W. Sok
  • World
  • Better
  • Strive

• Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Ahimsa
  • Explorations
  • Woman Is

• That only a few, under any circumstances, protest against the injustice of long-established laws and customs, does not disprove the fact of the oppressions, while the satisfaction of the many, if real only proves their apathy and deeper degradation.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Circumstances
  • Satisfaction
  • Injustice

• Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Mingled in harmony on Nature's face, Ascend our rocky mountains. Let thy foot Fail not with weariness, for on their tops The beauty and the majesty of earth, Spread wide beneath, shall make thee to forget The steep and toilsome way.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Earth
  • Forget
  • Mountain

• If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Book
  • Buy
  • Scarcity

• Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Failing
  • Temperature