"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."

-- Paul Erdos

#Witty Quotes #Coffee Quotes #Humorous Quotes

“When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.”
“One of the saddest things about US education is that the wisdom of our most successful teachers is lost to the profession when they retire.”
“Not only do we naturalize history, but also consequently we naturalize the social phenomena which express our oppression, making change impossible”

Source : Monique Wittig (1992). “The Straight Mind: And Other Essays”, Beacon Press (MA)
“And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.”
“Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals.”
“Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look.”
“Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.”
“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.”

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