Jeantet Quotes & Sayings

The worst form of snobbery is to deny information; to anyone at all. Always remember that. Bas as it is to look down on another human being: to act as censor? Unforgivable. — Matthew Blakstad

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary. — Sonia Johnson

I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Many black people I know are proud of the Irish part of their heritage - an Irish grandparent, say - but they recognise that many people believe in a form of racial purity. And it is from that belief that prejudice starts. — Tom Paulin

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. — Thomas Hobbes

The most important attribute for success in value investing is patience, patience, and more patience. The majority of investors do not possess this characteristic. — Peter Cundill

A break came when Polish intelligence officers created a machine based on a captured German coder that was able to crack some of the Enigma codes. By the time the Poles showed the British their machine, however, it had been rendered ineffective because the Germans had added two more rotors and two more plugboard connections to their Enigma machines. — Walter Isaacson

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion. — Stephen Spender