"The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it."

-- Constantin Stanislavski

#Humility Quotes #Realizing Quotes #Greatest Wisdom Quotes

“Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.”

Source : Thomas Bernhard (2013). “Correction: A Novel”, p.244, Vintage
“It is said that God notes each sparrow that falls. And so He does. But the proper closest statement of it that can be made in English is that God cannot avoid noting the sparrow because the Sparrow is God. And when a cat stalks a sparrow both of them are God, carrying out God's thoughts.”
“When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.”
“I don't know any of us who are in relationships that are totally honest - it doesn't exist.”
“In order to accomplish something, you must be willing to do whatever it takes to accomplish it.”
“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”

Source : A Mathematician's Apology ch. 8 (1940)
“I was dissatisfied just being an actor.”
“A nation must think before it acts.”

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