"Advice, like youth, probably wasted on the young"

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Mary Schmich

#Advice Quotes #Youth Quotes #Like You Quotes

“I think some people wished I'd kept myself out of the book. But I kind of insist on it because I want the reader to share my engagement with the material, if you like, not pretend that I'm doing it completely intellectually.”
“Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair.”

Source : João Magueijo (2004). “Faster Than the Speed of Light: The Story of a Scientific Speculation”, Penguin Group USA
“You see, this heart, won't settle down; just like a child, running, scared, from a clown. Demi Lovato”
“I have a low opinion of books: they are piles of stones set up to show coming travelers where other minds have been, or at best signal smokes to call attention...”
“Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else.”
“The affairs of this world are so shifting and depend on so many accidents, that it is hard to form any judgment concerning the future; nay, we see from experience that the forecasts even of the wise almost always turn out false.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”
“Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths. How many millions of dazzling pearls and gems are at this moment hid in the deep recesses of the ocean caves.”
“Ich kann nicht mehr (I can do no more).”

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