"An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination."

-- Andrew Lang

#Humorous Quotes #Men Quotes #Illumination Quotes

“Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.”
“You cannot drive a system that's going to be aiming at preventing illness if everyone is not in it. The whole gaming of health insurance and health care in America is based on that fundamental principle: insure people who aren't sick and you don't have to pay more money on them.”
“Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.”
“That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own.”
“We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.”
“Thereâ€™s no greater search than that of lost love.”
“Great literature is like moral leadership; everyone deplores the lack of it, but there is a tendency to prefer it from the safely dead.”

Source : Shirley Hazzard (2016). “We Need Silence to Find Out What We Think: Selected Essays”, p.67, Columbia University Press
“I mean by intellectual integrity the habit of deciding vexed questions in accordance with the evidence, or of leaving them undecided where the evidence is inconclusive. This virtue, though it is underestimated by almost all adherents of any system of dogma, is to my mind of the very greatest social importance and far more likely to benefit the world than Christianity or any other system of organized beliefs.”

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