"A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick."

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Source : "The Way of Life, According to Laotzu". Book by Witter Bynner, 1944.

Witter Bynner

#Knowledge Quotes #Men Quotes #Sick Quotes

“I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.”
“You know, I did records by myself and I always will say the Isley Brothers, and featuring Ronald. I won't, you know, just, I won't try to deviate from the Isley Brothers, because that's what the family dream was all about.”

Source : "'Baby Makin' Music' from the Isley Brothers". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. May 16, 2006.
“Indeed the mystery of Christ runs the risk of being disbelieved precisely because it is so incredibly wonderful”
“I'm like any Brazilian: I like to go out and enjoy myself.”
“One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.”
“My reaction to ***** films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.”
“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”
“It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk in the fridge to go sour; that everyday functional things will outlive us and prove that we weren't ready to go; that we weren't smart or knowing or heroic; that we were just animals whose animal bodies stopped working without any sort of schedule or any consent from us.”

Source : Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.18, Canongate Books

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