Thibaut Van Loo > Thibaut's Quotes

“Never Be the Bearer of Bad News. The king kills the messenger who brings bad news: This is a cliche but there is truth to it. You must struggle and if necessary lie and cheat to be sure that the lot of the bearer of bad news falls on a colleague, never on you. Bring only good news and your approach will gladden your master.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Think before you speak. Read before you think.”
― Fran Lebowitz, The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“The strength of a person's spirit would then be measured by how much 'truth' he could tolerate, or more precisely, to what extent he needs to have it diluted, disguised, sweetened, muted, falsified.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

“It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.”
― George Pólya

“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
― Voltaire

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“There's so many different worlds, so many different suns. And we have just one world, but we live in different ones.”
― Mark Knopfler, Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

“Suspended between fear of the past and fear of the future”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“You want to live - but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying - and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?”
― Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.”
― Theodosius Dobzhansky, Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution