"I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement."

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Source : William Boyd, John Costello (1991). “Ten days to destiny: the secret story of the Hess peace initiative and British efforts to strike a deal with Hitler”, William Morrow & Co

William Boyd

#Judgement Quotes #Doctrine Quotes #Tranquility Quotes

“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”
“No one was ever born without that light or flame of life. Some event, some person stifles or drowns it altogether. I was always tempted to resuscitate such men by my own joyousness or luminosity.When I break glasses in a night club, as the Russians do, when my unconscious breaks out in wild rebellions, it is against life which has crippled these idealistic, romantic men. I respect these men, cold, pure, faithful, devoted, moral, delicate, sensitive, and unequal to life, more than I respect the tough-minded ones who return three blows to one received, who kill those who hurt them.”
“The solution to the problem of the day is the awakening of the consciousness of humanity to the divinity within.”
“There's a tendency for adults to label the math that they can do (such as identifying patterns, choosing between competing offers in a supermarket, and challenging statistics published by the government) as "common sense" and labeling everything they can't do as "math" - so that being bad at math becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”
“No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and so ridiculous.”
“I suppose that the human mind can only stand so much grief and anguish. After that the fuses blow.”

Source : Fynn (2013). “Mister God, This is Anna”, p.24, HarperCollins UK
“Fear is not always a sin but it always is an opportunity.”
“The social sciences offer equal promise for improving human welfare; our lives can be greatly improved through a deeper understanding of individual and collective behavior. But to realize this promise, the social sciences, like the natural sciences, need to match their institutional structures to today's intellectual challenges.”

Source : "Let’s Shake Up the Social Sciences". www.nytimes.com. July 19, 2013.

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