Szlachetka Wiki Quotes & Sayings

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago. — Mason Cooley

I have a billion dollars — Donald J. Trump

Always stay in with the outs. — David Halberstam

I made a point of answering the question I received with some frequency from journalists, Do you think books can change people's lives? (which really meant, Do you actually think anything you could write could mean anything to anyone?), with a little airtight thought experiment in which I asked the interviewer to imagine the sort of person he might be if all of the literature he'd read in his life were somehow excised from his mind, his mind and soul, and as the journalist contemplated this nuclear winter I sat back with a self-satisfied smile, saved again from facing the truth. — Nicole Krauss

It is impossible to advance new theories ... when you are under the influence of a particular view, or under the pressure of a particular dogma. — Abdolkarim Soroush

If you go to the octopus, and if you're not too squeamish, dissect it. You'll find that it has a camera eye which is remarkable similar to our own. And yet we know that the octopus belongs to an invertebrate group called cephalopod mulluses, evolutionarily very distant indeed from the chordates to which we belong. — Simon Conway Morris

No, it's just, if everything happens for a reason," Elizabeth persists, "as personally, I believe that it does, then when I hear a story of how two people came together, it's like a piece of the plan is being revealed. — Emily St. John Mandel

Don't worry about what you should do, focus on what you can do. — Anonymous

The past and present are after all so close, almost one, as if time were an artificial teasing out of a material which longs to join, to interpenetrate, and to become heavy and very small like some of those heavenly bodies scientists tell us of. — Iris Murdoch

The one who knows himself isn't deceived by either praise or criticism. — Yasmin Mogahed