Gregorovitch Quotes & Sayings

the brain's business is not to give us an accurate or objective view of the world, but to give us a useful view - one we can act on — Robin Fox

The ruin of a man's teaching comes of his followers, such as having never touched the foundation he has laid, build upon it wood, hay, and stubble, fit only to be burnt. Therefore, if only to avoid his worst foes, his admirers, a man should avoid system. The more correct a system the worse will it be misunderstood; its professed admirers will take both its errors and their misconceptions of its truths, and hold them forth as its essence. — George MacDonald

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable. — Richard E. Byrd

It seems impossible that you could get something from nothing, but the fact that once there was nothing and now there is a universe is evident proof that you can. — Bill Bryson

Through their capacity to manipulate symbols and to engage in reflective thought, people can generate novel ideas and innovative actions that transcend their past experiences — Albert Bandura

As you meditate and become more spiritually attuned, you can better discern and recognize the sound of your higher self or the voice of God speaking to you through words, images, and sensations. — Jack Canfield

There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.' — Michelle Bachelet

He couldn't seem to get his teeth into anything. Except books. The things in books was darn near more real to him than the things breathing and eating. — Ken Kesey

That day was turning out to be longer than The Brothers Karamazov. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another two hundred thousand titles to this stack each year. This means that at the current publishing rate, ten million new books will be added in the next fifty years. Add together the dusty LOC volumes with the shiny new and forthcoming books, and you get a bookshelf-warping total of twenty-eight million books available for an English reader in the next fifty years! But you can read only 2,600 - because you are a wildly ambitious book devourer ... For every one book that you choose to read, you must ignore ten thousand other books simply because you don't have the time (or money!). — Tony Reinke