"It's an universal law-- intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound education breeds humility."

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Source : Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1974). “August 1914”, Harmondsworth : Penguin

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Humility Quotes #Law Quotes #Profound Quotes

“Evolution isn't true, because if we evolved from monkeys, how can they still be here?”
“The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit.”
“We only borrow the breaths we take in life. Every breath we borrow we give back, including our last. In the end, no matter how we lived, we all die feeling owed.”
“Is there any time in your life when you do not feel the need for caffeine?" "Sure. Sometimes I'm asleep.”
“I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.”
“Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.”
“Initially when our foundations are rocked, when we lose our external security, we feel very fragile. In that moment, we have a choice. Am I the Phoenix and rise from the ashes or do I just keep wallowing in the ashes?”
“You praise, in three hundred verses, Sabellus, the baths of Ponticus, who gives such excellent dinners. You wish to dine, Sabellus, not to bathe.”

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