"Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great."

-- Carlo Goldoni

#Noble Quotes #Action Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature. When one feels such pleasure in non-existence, one's inclination can be completely satisfied only by completely ceasing to exist.”
“Do what you can't and experience the beauty of the mistakes you make.”

Source : Daniel H. Pink (2006). “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future”, p.133, Penguin
“Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.”

Source : Linda Gordon (2011). “The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction”, p.314, Harvard University Press
“Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers.”
“When there's a terrible murder people who are interviewed say, 'This has always been a quiet neighborhood.' That is so dumb and uninformed! The earth is not a quiet neighborhood. There isn't anyplace that's a quiet neighborhood. People are asking themselves how to stay neat in the cyclone.”
“We are grateful to the Liberian people who volunteered for this important clinical trial and encouraged by the study results seen with the two investigational Ebola vaccine candidates,”
“It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.”

Source : Interview with Radheyan Simonpillai, www.askmen.com.
“Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown prose that would leave the reader puzzled and cowed. He should then here and there smuggle in a few sensible, straightforward sentences all could understand. The reader would feel that since he has grasped this part, he must have also grasped the rest. He would then congratulate himself and praise the author.”

Source : "The Seen and the Unseen. Part I. On the Economics of Protecting Employment" by Anthony de Jasay, www.econlib.org. December 6, 2004.

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