Bergisel Quotes & Sayings

Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book. — John Le Carre

We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge. — Michel De Montaigne

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later. — Ernest Hemingway,

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person. — Gary Chapman

I worked for 22 years with Sol Berson. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

What one means by integrity, in the case of the novelist, is the conviction that he gives one that this is the truth. Yes, one feels, I should never have thought that this could be so; I have never known people behaving like that. But you have convinced me that so it is, so it happens. One holds every phrase, every scene to the light as one reads - for Nature seems, very oddly, to have provided us with an inner light by which to judge of the novelist's integrity or disintegrity. Or perhaps it is rather that Nature, in her most irrational mood, has traced in invisible ink on the walls of the mind a premonition which these great artists confirm; a sketch which only needs to be held to the fire of genius to become visible. When one so exposes it and sees it come to life one exclaims in rapture, But this is what I have always felt and known and desired! — Virginia Woolf