"It is a painful thing to say to oneself: by choosing one road I am turning my back on a thousand others. Everything is interesting; everything might be useful; everything attracts and charms a noble mind; but death is before us; mind and matter make their demands; willy-nilly we must submit and rest content as to things that time and wisdom deny us, with a glance of sympathy which is another act of our homage to the truth."

-- Antonin Sertillanges

#Interesting Quotes #Choices Quotes #Mind Quotes

“There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.”

Source : "For Feller, Navy was easy decision". Interview with Mary Buckheit, www.espn.com. November 12, 2009.
“The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
“Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.”

Source : Antonio Tabucchi (1989). “Little Misunderstandings of No Importance”, p.8, New Directions Publishing
“The European single currency is bound to fail, economically, politically and indeed socially, though the timing, occasion and full consequences are all necessarily still unclear.”
“There can be very little of present-day science and technology that is not dependent on complex numbers in one way or another.”

Source : Keith J. Devlin (1988). “Mathematics: the new golden age”, Penguin Books
“You can have too much champagne to drink but you can never have enough.”
“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”
“We had pastors testifying in favor of gun control. And they were quoting the Bible, too, for it. And there were no pastors on the other side testifying against gun control... I had to literally open up my Bible and read scripture to these pastors in a hearing in Olympia. A politician had to read scripture to pastors.”

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