Roubador Quotes & Sayings

Real mathematics must be justified as art if it can be justified at all. — G.H. Hardy

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new — Jules Verne

If she was pretty and well-mannered, a daughter could marry up; a son could not. A son needed his own prospects. — G. Willow Wilson

To provide leadership to those who can't see over the horizon, leaders need to assure others of what the future is likely to hold. — Roger Parrott

The path to wisdom is not being afraid to make mistakes. — Paulo Coelho

Accordingly, identification, or the formation of composite figures, serves different purposes: first, to represent a feature both persons have in common; secondly, to represent a displaced common feature; but thirdly, to find expression for a common feature that is merely wished for. Since wishing it to be the case that two people have something in common is often the same as exchanging them, this relation too is expressed in the dream by identification. In the dream of Irma's injection, I wish to exchange this patient for another, that is, I wish that the other were my patient, as Irma is; the dream takes account of the wish in showing me a figure who is called Irma, but who is examined in a posture in which I have only had occasion to see the other. — Sigmund Freud

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child. — James Huneker

Hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made. — Lu Xun

What lives in art and is eternally living, is first of all the painter and then the painting. — Vincent Van Gogh