"I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist."

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Source : "Jacques Barzun '27: Columbia Avatar". Columbia Today, January 2006.

Jacques Barzun

#Thinking Quotes #Cheerful Quotes #Students Quotes

“The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.”
“Somewhere in the rain, there will always be an abandoned dog that prevents you from being happy.”
“To be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”
“I believe it was God's will that we should come back, so that men might know the things that are in the world, since, as we have said in the first chapter of this book, no other man, Christian or Saracen, Mongol or pagan, has explored so much of the world as Messer Marco, son of Messer Niccolo Polo, great and noble citizen of the city of Venice.”
“Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.”
“In the war against breast cancer, we have the ability to arm ourselves with knowledge and education is a powerful tool. By taking action and doing something positive, fear is replaced with hope.”
“On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans do, and smile at people even if he disapproved of them”
“Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.”

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