"It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."

-- Jean Rostand

#Truth Quotes #Errors Quotes #Attention Quotes

“it was love, of course, though I didn't know it then and Finn was both its subject and object. He accepted love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions, like a wild thing glimpsed through trees.”

Source : Meg Rosoff (2008). “What I Was”, p.45, Penguin UK
“Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be and embracing who we are.”

Source : Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.64, Simon and Schuster
“So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.”
“Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.”
“So, obviously, autism - which is the key in this - is a very big problem. We need more studies about it. We certainly have to try to figure out what causes it and why and do something about it. But to tab it to vaccines, I think, is a real mistake. Not only is there no evidence, but what it leads to is larger numbers of unvaccinated children. And that's not only a problem for polio. It's a problem for a wide range of vaccine-preventable diseases.”

Source : "Bill Gates' Goal: Get Rid Of Polio, Forever". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. January 31, 2011.
“It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.”
“We are rich in the quantity of songs rather than in the quality. The singer has to go through hundreds of compositions before he finds one that really says something.”
“I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.”

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