Wynand Schoonbee > Wynand's Quotes

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

“Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.”
― Bryce Courtenay

“First with the head, then with the heart.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

“If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Labyrinth

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, A Civil Campaign

“When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. When you desire a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory

“I've always thought tests are a gift. And great tests are a great gift. To fail the test is a misfortune. But to refuse the test is to refuse the gift, and something worse, more irrevocable, than misfortune.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Shards of Honour

“My home is not a place, it is people.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Barrayar

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
― Robert Frost

“When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, The Warrior's Apprentice

“Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Komarr

“Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold

“If you can't do what you want, do what you can.”
― Lois McMaster Bujold, Miles Errant

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”
― Frank Herbert

“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert

“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. ”
― Frank Herbert

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
― Frank Herbert

“Truth suffers from too much analysis.

-Ancient Fremen Saying”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

“A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.”
― William Maxwell

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen Hawking

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”
― Daniel J. Boorstin

“For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.”
― Stephen Hawking

“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. ”
― Stephen Hawking

“One is always a long way from solving a problem until one actually has the answer.”
― Stephen W. Hawking

“Government works best under the glare of public scrutiny. Absent such scrutiny, abuses occur.”
― Stephen Hawking