John Pringle Nichol famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There is evil in the world, but it can be overcome through repentance ­and aspiration, and therein lies the true meaning and adventure of life.

  • Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

  • You are all spirits. It is not that you "have" a spirit. To have a spirit implies that you are spirit and that you are also something else. Human beings are spirits. Being a human being is one of the ways of being a spirit.

  • Friendship is that virtue by which spirits are bound by ties of love and sweetness and out of many are made one.

  • A puppy is but a dog, plus high spirits, and minus common sense.

  • The ego tells you to fill space. Your spirit tells you to let space fill you.

  • In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

  • The art of discovering the causes of phenomena, or true hypothesis, is like the art of decyphering, in which an ingenious conjecture greatly shortens the road.

  • I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

  • My reasons are the same as for any mathematical conjecture: (1) It is a legitimate mathematical possibility, and (2) I do not know.