"Anyhow, there simply isnt enough room in the museums Fishes Hall, so weve decided to pretend to the public that a whale is actually a mammal without any legs. Its pathetically ridiculous-I mean to say, just look at the thing, its a gigantic fish if I ever saw one-but mums the word! In my experience the public will believe just about anything, so long as you write it down on a little piece of card."

-- Gideon Defoe

#Believe Quotes #Mean Quotes #Writing Quotes

“It turned out that the country was helpless in the face of a new reality.”

Source : "Why Not Have Our Own World?". Interview with Renata Murawska, sensesofcinema.com. July 2005.
“The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague.”

Source : "The humble programmer" by Edsger Dijkstra in "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, Issue 10 (pp. 859-866), dl.acm.org. October 1972.
“I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.”
“I don't do one show and wish I was doing something else.”
“A sincere acquaintance with ourselves teaches us humility; and from humility springs that benevolence which compassionates the transgressors we condemn, and prevents the punishments we inflict from themselves partaking of crime, in being rather the wreakings of revenge than the chastisements of virtue.”

Source : Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”
“I'm not disappointed (at not leading), I'm just trying my best.”
“I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.”
“The fact about himself that the liar hides is that he is attempting to lead us away from a correct apprehension of reality; we are not to know that he wants us to believe something he supposes to be false. The fact about himself that the bullshitter hides, on the other hand, is that the truth-values of his statements are of no central interest to him . . . He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”

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