Boris Sidis Quotes

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

Boris Sidis

• Fear
• Existence
• Instinct
• Preservation
• Human Institution

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.

  

  Warren Mitchell
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Little

• A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the worst model I've heard of in my life. It's just idiotic. Why wouldn't you just wait for the good ones?

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Why

• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Evil

• Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Long
  • Done
  • Accomplishment

• I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Night
  • Quiet
  • Busy

• I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.

  

  Olaf Carlson-Wee
  • People
  • Moments
  • Thought

• In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Art
  • Culture
  • Food

• World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • Important
  • War

• There will always be women who say, 'She doesn't represent me.' In retrospect, these things are gifts, because it forces me to step up and defend what I'm doing.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Women
  • She

• It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • World
  • Long
  • Imperialism

• For example, the equivalent of a woman being treated as a sex object is a man being treated as a success object.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Success
  • Man
  • Woman

• Central banks need to be able to buy bonds if there are short-term malfunctions of the markets. But buying bonds without differentiation and without limits would be very problematic.

  

  Lars Feld
  • Need
  • Limits
  • Without

• 'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Like
  • Blue

• No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Respect
  • Husband
  • Legend

• Judge: Do you want Mr. Bryan sworn?

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Judge

• A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • People
  • Different
  • Book

• I remember looking at my daughter for the first time and wondering if that's the way my father looked at me. I could cry, because she's everything to me. I feel so blessed to be taught so much by her.

  

  Alicia Coppola
  • Time
  • She
  • Remember

• I've always thought of myself as being extremely lucky. The idea is to keep that luck going. Headlining the Stanley was a real kick. I think it's the type of thing I could get used to.

  

  Donnie Iris
  • Real
  • Luck

• The thing with stand-up is, I really enjoyed it, but I kind of loathed it as well. It makes me feel physically sick.

  

  Peter Serafinowicz
  • Up
  • Sick

• The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Experience

• Orchard of the strangest fruits Hanging from the skies; Brothers, yet insensate brutes Who fear each others’ eyes.

  

  Elinor Wylie
  • Fear
  • Eyes

• Doubt everything. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.

  

  Amy Plum
  • Doubt
  • Instinct

• Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

  

  Boris Sidis
  • Fear
  • Existence
  • Instinct