"It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought."

-- Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

#Drinking Quotes #Water Quotes #Doubt Quotes

“I'm not that interested in people”
“An email address is like a customer's "digital fingerprint".”
“One-run games can go either way, and most of the time they do.”
“When I finally got tired of arguing with her and decided to write a novel as if I was some kind of formulaic, genre writing drone, just to prove to her how awful it would be, I wrote the first book of the Dresden Files.”
“Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.”
“Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.”

Source : Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.60, Cosimo Classics
“World Refugee Day is a reminder that there is no 'us' and 'them.' There is only us, one human family, connected in ways we sometimes forget.”
“Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.”

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