"To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important."

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Source : "Hothouse". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1962.

Brian Aldiss

#Important Quotes #Shapes Quotes #Standards Quotes

“The golden rule for understanding spiritually is not intellect, but obedience. If a man wants scientific knowledge, intellectual curiosity is his guide; but if he wants insight into what Jesus Christ teaches, he can only get it by obedience.”
“Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.”
“If I had it to do again, I'd ask more questions and interrupt fewer answers.”
“I hate those TV shows where characters talk about one thing, such as their patient on the operation table (let's say they're a doctor), then you realize they're actually talking about actually talking about themselves. The patient's open-heart surgery is nothing compared to their own messed-up heart or whatever. It's selfish. And means they're not concentrating, which is medical negligence.”

Source : Jaclyn Moriarty (2010). “The Ghosts Of Ashbury High”, p.112, Scholastic Inc.
“[While] physically traveling someplace or experiencing someplace firsthand, physically versus - which is what a lot of young people do - the experience is mitigated through technology and through social media.”
“we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.”
“Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.”

Source : Theodor Reik (1956). “The Search Within: The Inner Experiences of a Psychoanalyst; from the Works of Theodor Reik”
“When fast food is not a treat but a dietary staple, the children surf the internet all day in dark corners of the room and are bombarded with latest gadgets. Things replace parental standards.”

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