"My passion has always been books and literature, and teaching."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Book Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Passion Quotes

“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.58, Open Road Media
“I'm really a very weak musicologist. Wish it weren't so, but there's only so much you can dig deeply into in one lifetime, as if you hadn't noticed.”
“Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.”
“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.”

Source : Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley (2013). “Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics”, p.69, Basic Books
“Asceticism is not that you should not own anything, but that nothing should own you.”
“Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.”
“Talent matters. Systems matter. Strategies matter. We can't just bring nice people together and think we're going to solve the world's problems.”
“If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.”

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