"It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes."

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Source : Mary Stewart (1978). “Hollow Hills”, Fawcett

Mary Stewart

#Wise Quotes #Knowledge Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.521, e-artnow
“You most likely know it as Myanmar, but it will always be Burma to me.”

Source : "Fictional character: J. Peterman". TV Series "Seinfeld", www.imdb.com. 1989-1998.
“I can think of very few science books I've read that I've called useful. What they've been is wonderful. They've actually made me feel that the world around me is a much fuller, much more wonderful, much more awesome place than I ever realized it was. That has been, for me, the wonder of science. That's why science fiction retains its compelling fascination for people. That's why the move of science fiction into biology is so intriguing. I think that science has got a wonderful story to tell.”
“When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}”
“He felt around desperately for a weapon. What did he have? Diapers? Cookies? Oh, why hadn't they given him a sword? He was the stupid warrior, wasn't he? His fingers dug in the leather bag and closed around the root beer can. Root beer! He yanked out the can shaking it with all his might. "Attack! Attack!" he yelled.”
“I'm at my best when I'm working. Breaks are not great for me. I get frustrated sometimes, if I have a long break and somebody says, "Oh, that must be nice!"”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Every concert pianist knows that the surest way to ruin a performance is to be aware of what the fingers are doing. Every dancer and acrobat knows enough to let the mind go, let the body run itself. Every driver of a manual vehicle arrives at destinations with no recollection of the stops and turns and roads traveled in getting there. You are all sleepwalkers, whether climbing creative peaks or slogging through some mundane routine for the thousandth time. You are all sleepwalkers.”

Source : Peter Watts (2006). “Blindsight”, p.302, Macmillan
“Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.”

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