Nisio Isin (NisiOisiN) Quotes

If we turn a blind eye to the fact that your opinion is entirely wrong, you're quite right.

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• I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Say

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• For me, the Congress party is now my life, the people of India are my life, and I will fight for the people of India and for this party.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • People
  • Life
  • Party

• When you feel bad on the inside, you wind up wanting to do things to make others feel bad. In contrast, when you feel happy on the inside, you want to do things to make others feel happy.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Happy

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Important
  • Change
  • Single

• The Negro race, like all races, is going to be saved by its exceptional men. The problem of education, then, among Negroes must first of all deal with the Talented Tenth; it is the problem of developing the Best of this race that they may guide the Mass away from the contamination and death of the Worst, in their own and other races.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • May
  • Death

• Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Car
  • Dangerous
  • Situations

• I'm a professor of national security studies, and I know a lot more about fighting than Rumsfeld does.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Know
  • Fighting
  • Security

• Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Follow

• A few honest men are better than numbers.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Better
  • Numbers

• Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • People
  • Intelligence
  • Tell

• If you go through any culture that has had wars, go to the bomb shelters, and you'll hear some amazing stories. Yes, it's a necessary thing that we actually both distract ourselves and it's a way to bond.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Culture
  • Amazing
  • Bond

• I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Remember
  • Song
  • Playing

• I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Man
  • Wonder
  • Dreams

• Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Nature
  • Thought
  • Expression

• We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.

  

  Alan Perlis
  • Thoughts

• After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a sixth sense and cultivate it, but life will remain the same, a hard life full of secrets, but happy. And a thousand years from now man will still be sighing, 'Oh! Life is so hard!' and will still, like now, be afraid of death and not want to die.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Death

• It is not differences of opinion; it is geographical lines, rivers, and mountains which divide State from State, and make different nations of mankind.

  

  Jefferson Davis
  • Different
  • Opinion

• Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Ideas
  • Opinion
  • Public

• Opinion in good men is but knowledge in the making.

  

  John Milton
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Opinion

• We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

  

  Geert Wilders
  • Should
  • Common
  • Logic

• If we turn a blind eye to the fact that your opinion is entirely wrong, you're quite right.

  

  Nisio Isin
  • Opinion
  • Right
  • Wrong