Niels Bohr Profound Quotes & Sayings

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr

A joyous occasion is never quite as wonderful as when it becomes a memory. — Jimmy Carter

Men were valued by what they did, women by how they looked and then by what their husbands did, and all of life was arranged (or so we thought) from the outside in. — Gloria Steinem

There is nothing more important in life than love. — Barbra Streisand

The legendary Danish physicist Niels Bohr distinguished two kinds of truths. An ordinary truth is a statement whose opposite is a falsehood. A profound truth is a statement whose opposite is also a profound truth. — Frank Wilczek

Navigation, you see, is not just a problem for sailors. Everyone must go adventuring sooner or later, yet finding one's way home is not easy. Just like the North Star and all its whirling, starry brethren, a person's idea of where 'home' is remains in perpetual motion, one's whole life long.
Home was more than a house, even if the house was very grand. — Maryrose Wood

That was a pretty good laptop, but Reagan's glad to lose it. Sometimes sacrifices must be made in the search for sweet lulz — Chuck Wendig

Man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for little is never lacking. — Titus Lucretius Carus

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed. — Thomas Jefferson

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth. — Niels Bohr

At every stage of understanding the universe better, the benefits to civilisation have been immeasurable. None of those big leaps were made with us knowing what was going to happen. — Brian Cox

Maybe misery begins everywhere. — Catherine Lacey

Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy — Tim Brown

I play a lot of hard men and gangsters, and I'm not like that at all. — Sean Pertwee

There are two sorts of truth: trivialities, where opposites are clearly absurd, and profound truths, recognised by the fact that the opposite is also a profound truth — Niels Bohr

They kill me because they are afraid of me; and what more can any man's heart desire? — Ethel Lilian Voynich

One cannot use the life to interpret the work. But One can use the work to interpret the life. — Susan Sontag

I don't think any novelist should be concerned with literature ... literature should be left to essayists. — Jacqueline Susann