Adlon Kempinski Quotes & Sayings

Logic is like the sword
those who appeal to it shall perish by it. — Samuel Butler

Life doesn't have compartments."
"Don't kid yourself. Niches and cubbyholes contain us," I reply. — Rodney Ross

A little fear is good for a fellow, it keeps him from getting over-confident. — Gary L. Blackwood

Once you have the gift of life, you are blessed. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When a scientist doesn't know the answer to a problem, he is ignorant. When he has a hunch as to what the result is, he is uncertain. And when he is pretty darn sure of what the result is going to be, he is still in some doubt. We have found it of paramount importance that in order to progress we must recognize our ignorance and leave room for doubt. Scientific knowledge is a body of statements of varying degrees of uncertainty-some most unsure, some nearly sure, but none absolutely certain. — Richard P. Feynman

[...] it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...] — Jose Saramago