Famous Igor Quotes & Sayings

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost. — Fyodor Dostoevsky

At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal. — Walker Percy

Water is the driving force in nature. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Hopes have precarious life.
They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off
In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness. — George Eliot

I was not alone in my success, only in my failure. — J. Devau

Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass. — Javier Marias

If not now, when? — Eckhart Tolle

I think you would have to be a nihilist to say that we are not making progress on cancer, just like you'd have to be hubristically optimistic to say that we have conquered cancer. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

Listen, my sons, to a father's discipline, and pay attention so that you may gain understanding. Proverbs 4:1 — Beth Moore

Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee. — Georges Clemenceau

One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. — Charles Brenton Huggins

Advent is a season that is a borderland. A new year is coming. We're waiting for the coming of Jesus, both for his birth on Christmas Day and for his coming again on the Last Day. — Heidi Haverkamp