R. > R.'s Quotes

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding

“I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Threats are the last resort of a man with no vocabulary.”
― Tamora Pierce, Lady Knight

“How it is we have so much information, but know so little?”
― Noam Chomsky

“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”
― Noam Chomsky

“If anybody thinks they should listen to me because I'm a professor at MIT, that's nonsense. You should decide whether something makes sense by its content, not by the letters after the name of the person who says it.”
― Noam Chomsky

“I think; therefore I am.”
― Rene Descartes

“The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.”
― René Descartes

“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
― René Descartes

“Doubt is the origin of wisdom”
― Rene Descartes

“Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.”
― Rene Descartes

“But in my opinion, all things in nature occur mathematically.”
― Rene Decartes

“To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.”
― René Descartes

“In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn than to contemplate.”
― Rene Descartes

“Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!”
― George Bernard Shaw

“خارج مضمار كل الأفكار
كل مفاهيم الخير والشر ، الفضيلة والخطيئة
هناك مرج واسع بلا نهاية
سألقاك هناك”
― جلال الدين الرومي, مثنوى - الكتاب الأول

“لا تحاول أن تقاوم التغييرات التي تعترض سبيلك ، بل دع الحياة تعيش فيك. ولا تقلق إذا قلبت حياتك رأساً على عقب. فكيف يمكنك أن تعرف أن الجانب الذي اعتدت عليه أفضل من الجانب الذي سيأتي؟”
― إليف شافاق, The Forty Rules of Love

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
― Rumi