Cleomenes Ii Quotes

#1. Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.

Phil Crosby

#2. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.

Herman Melville

#3. I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable ... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

Lou Reed

#4. I try to explain that to my kids - the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you - but my kids don't want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.

Jon Bon Jovi

#5. I wished to punish her for her intolerable stoicism, which made it impossible for me to ever be truly needed by her in the most profound ways a person can need another, a need that often goes by the name of love.

Nicole Krauss

#6. What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

Salman Rushdie

#7. The key to wisdom is this
constant and frequent questioning ... for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.

Pierre Abelard