Olaotan Elenitoba Johnson Quotes & Sayings

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation ... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom. — Hermann Weyl

The art in photography is literary art before it is anything else: its triumphs and monuments are historical, anecdotal, reportorial, observational before they are purely pictorial ... The photograph has to tell a story if it is to work as art. — Clement Greenberg

I'm the joke of the family with cooking because I've never done it - primarily because I've been surrounded by people who are so good at it. Mum's brilliant. Boyfriends have always been good at it. I'm waiting for my inner chef to be released. — Emilia Fox

From Portrait of a Landscape

I think art only exists when it's being made. It's like a flower. Once picked, it starts to die. — Daniel D. Watkins

He was so far away now, or maybe he just looked distant because we were imaging different things for our future. — Alexandra Kleeman

Berkshireis in the business of making easy predictions If a deal looks too hard, the partners simply shelve it. — Charlie Munger

Be who you are. / Give what you have. — Rose Auslander

Sometimes you have to grab life by the horns and ride it,even if it tries to throw you. — Karen Hawkins

But nothing is yet clear on the subject of the intellect and the contemplative faculty. However, it seems to be another kind of soul, and this alone admits of being separated, as that which is eternal from that which is perishable, while it is clear from these remarks that the other parts of the soul are not separable, as some assert them to be, though it is obvious that they are conceptually distinct. — Aristotle.

Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles. — Roger Babson

When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble. — Thomas A. Edison

We come to the end of suffering, through suffering. — T. Scott McLeod

...knowing the full depth of any human, knowing their hopes and frailties, the hurts of their past, the tremor with which they reach for the future...that knowledge is akin to love. — J.M. Martin