Puerilities Quotes & Sayings

While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work [Plato's Republic], I laid it down often to ask myself how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this? — Thomas Jefferson

I was convinced that luck was a matter of knowing what one wanted and then being willing to work to make the wish come true. — Carlos P. Romulo

Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation. — Kate Winslet

Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10. — Abram Hoffer

I have such a fantastic life that I feel an overwhelming sense of gratitude for it ... But I don't have anyone to express my gratitude to. This is a void deep inside me, a void of wanting someone to thank, and I don't see any plausible way of filling it. — Bart D. Ehrman

Why else do any of this if not to become who we want to be? — Anthony Doerr

Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair. — Joao Magueijo