To reflect and think.
​QUOTES
Charles Bukowski
Roll the Dice
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”
Massimo Banzi
Unknown
“The man who says it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt the man who is trying to do it.”
Maimonides
Unknown
“Teach thy tongue to say, 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.”
Nietzsche
Unknown
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh's letter to theo
(London, January 1874)
“Admire as much as you can, most people don’t admire enough.”
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
P.S. I love you
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour.
Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream Discover.”
T.S. Elliot
Unknown
“To each individual the world takes on a different connotation of meaning - the important lies in the desire to search for an answer.”
Jacob Bronowski
Unknown
“Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.”
Charles Mackay
Extraordinary Popular Delusions
and the Madness of Crowds
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
Bernard of Clairvaux
Unknown
“There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love.”
Issac Newton
Unknown
“If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”
Theodore Roosevelt
"The Man in the Arena" speech
Sorbonne, Paris on 1910
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming.. who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly”
Henry Ford
Unknown
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
C.S. Lewis
Unknown
“The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.”
Benjamin Franklin
Unknown
“If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
Carl Jung
Unknown
“The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.”
