Khalil > Khalil's Quotes

“Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity.”
― Aaron Swartz

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
― Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet

“Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change”
― Barbara Januszkiewicz

“أنا لا أطلب منك أن تصف سقوط المطر، أنا أطلب أن تجعلني أتبلل، فكر بالأمر، أيُّها الكاتب!”
― إدواردو غاليانو

“Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.”
― Aaron Swartz

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”
― Richard P. Feynman

“I'm smart enough to know that I'm dumb.”
― Richard Feynman

“Whenever I see someone reading a book, especially if it is someone I don't expect, I feel civilisation has become a little safer.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“ان القراءة بالنسبة لي نوع رخيص من المخدرات ، لا افعل بها شيئا سوى الغياب عن الوعي
فيما مضى تصور هذا ، كانوا يقرءون من اجل اكتساب الوعي !!”
― احمد خالد توفيق

“ربما أعطاك فمنعك، و ربما منعك فأعطاك، و متى فتح لك باب الفهم في المنع صار المنع عين العطاء.”
― أحمد بن عطاء الله السكندري

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“The difference between technology and slavery is that slaves are fully aware that they are not free”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain

“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
― Albert Einstein

“I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
― Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations