"People who understand everything get no stories."

-- Bertolt Brecht

#People Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.”
“If the map doesn't agree with the ground, the map is wrong.”

Source : Gordon Livingston (2009). “Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now”, p.1, Da Capo Press
“A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician eventually does so - and proves a theorem.”
“I think my favorite thing about seasons changing is the opportunity to look different.”
“And it struck me that talking about our financial situation is very much like men not wanting to talk about sexual impotence. It's just not something you do. It's an embarrassment. It's a shame. It's a humiliation.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.”
“A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.”

Source : Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.206, The Overlook Press
“If I wanted to honor you, IÂ´d let you retire. I am planing to make you run the kingdom and fight the wars while I eat and drink”

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