Gediminas

“[Ducem Barr:] “Unfortunately, an uninformed public tends to confuse scholarship with magicianry, [...].”
[Bel Riose:] “And so would seem the most natural. But I differ. I connect scholarship with nothing but the means of answering difficult questions.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire

“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.”
― Emile Chartier Alain

“Nobody can judge an internal injury," he had said, "by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses

“What kind of idea are you? Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accomodates itself to society, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrod-backed type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze? – The kind that will almost certainly, ninety-nine times out of hundred, be smashed to bits; but, the hundredth time, will change the world.”
― Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses