"The fact of knowing how to read is nothing, the whole point is knowing what to read."

-- Jacques Ellul

#Knowing Quotes #Library Quotes #Facts Quotes

“What people call success is only preparation for the next failure.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.243, Univ of California Press
“Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.”
“You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.”
“There is a preppy wabi-sabi to soft, faded khakis and cotton shirts, but it's not nice to be surrounded by things that are worn out or stained or used up.”
“I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.”
“Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from...”
“Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.”
“It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.”

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