Kavallerie Quotes & Sayings

So you should accept knowledge as if you were hearing something you already knew. But this does not mean to receive various pieces of information merely as an echo of your own opinions. It means that you should not be surprised at whatever you see or hear. If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully accept them as they are. So when we say, "Rozan is famous for its misty, rainy days," it does not mean to appreciate this sight by recollecting some scenery we have seen before: "It is not so wonderful. I have seen that sight before." Or "I have painted much more beautiful paintings! Rozan is nothing!" This is not our way. If you are ready to accept things as they are, you will receive them as old friends, even though you appreciate them with new feeling. — Shunryu Suzuki

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature. — Gottfried Leibniz

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain. — Rainer Maria Rilke

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves — Samuel Johnson

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it. — Mary Ellen Mark

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing. — The Notorious B.I.G.

Sometimes you have to let the world end, so you can build a new one. — Leanne Hall

Lansens is a willing storyteller ... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported
who might sit at her knee, the hearth. — Noah Richler

Science makes god unnecessary. — Stephen Hawking

The U.S. continues the search for Osama bin Laden. Reports suggest that bin Laden is most likely hiding out somewhere remote and barren, where he will not encounter others. The FBI has begun searching theaters showing the movie 'Glitter.' — Jimmy Fallon

I noticed Stucks was wearing - maybe ironically, possibly not - a T-shirt that read Save Gas, Fart in a Jar. — Gillian Flynn

Don't, she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire. — Vivian Vande Velde

I do not believe there was ever a life more attractive than life on a cattle farm. — Theodore Roosevelt

There is a wisdom in children, a kind of knowing, a kind of believing, that we, as adults, do not have. There is a time when a kingdom needs its children. — Adam Gidwitz