"Learn the ABC of science before you try to ascend to its summit."

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Source : Bequest to the Academic Youth of Soviet Russia, 1936.

Ivan Pavlov

#Trying Quotes #Summit Quotes

“I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.”
“The most important thing about my profession is finding the truth, finding the reality of these shows.”
“Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield
“I get as much fun as the next man from whaling the ball as hard as I can and catching it squarely on the button. But from sad experience I learned not to try this in a round that meant anything.”

Source : Bobby Jones (1966). “Bobby Jones on Golf”, Main Street Books
“The future is dark, the present burdensome. Only the past, dead and buried, bears contemplation.”
“Vampires to me have always been very sexy.”
“An enlightened awareness is within each one of us, right at this moment. This enlightened awareness is truly unborn and marvellously illuminating; and everything is perfectly managed by it. Conclusively realise that what is unborn and illuminating is truly awakened and without effort, rest naturally as the Unborn Mind. Resting in this way, you are a living Buddha.”
“Those elegant delights of jig and vaulting.”

Source : William Congreve, Elijah Fenton (1779). “The Works of the English Poets”, p.333

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