Top 28 Doxiadis Quotes
#1. We do not learn only from great minds; we learn from everyone, if only we observe and inquire.
C.A. Doxiadis
#2. Non-bank financial institutions provide credit that is essential to U.S. businesses and consumers.
Henry Paulson
#4. As a fan of Kanye West, working with him is insane.
Justin Vernon
#5. We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
Apostolos Doxiadis
#6. When Logic congeals into all-encompassing and perfect-seeming theories, then it can actually become a very evil con trick. Wittgenstein has a point, you see: 'All the facts of science are not enough to understand the world's meaning!
Apostolos Doxiadis
#8. All the facts of science aren't enough to understand the world's meaning. For this, you must step outside the world."
"Without language of thought, how can you understand anything?"
"Who knows, maybe by whistling?
Apostolos Doxiadis
#9. Most of the time - at the Grammys for example - a DJ will perform with just their hands in the air because they can't do anything and that makes it a little awkward, I think.
Tiesto
#10. Puppets seem like vampires sometimes. They live, and you're depleted.
Henry Selick
#11. Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman ... Which is probably the same thing!
Apostolos Doxiadis
#12. That's what I love about acting, you get to find little pieces of yourself in every character you play.
Julianna Margulies
#13. Well, the Dean has asked me to speak on "The Role of Logic in Human Affairs". Of course, if I take the injunction literally you shall hear the shortest lecture in recorded history!
Apostolos Doxiadis
#14. Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber
#15. Love dies by steps. The footfalls of fear, resentment, anger, and spite kill love, little by little. It withers. It tarnishes. It passes away, poisoned, ill, and wounded beyond all power to heal.
Mark T. Barnes
#16. Different artists are talking about the laws that exist and how they need to be fixed so that compensation does happen to a far fairer level. And I agree with that.
Stevie Wonder
#17. The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.
Apostolos Doxiadis
#18. married. Edgar went back into the parlor
Amy Bloom
#19. My contention is that especially young, recently trained engineers are in a position to recognize and to react on a presumptive anomaly: They are trained within the technological frame but have low enough inclusion to question the basic assumptions of that frame.
Wiebe E. Bijker
#20. It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life.
Pythagoras
#21. Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.
Thomas Sowell
#23. It does not have to mean a literal fifty-fifty or a day-by-day score-keeping, but you'll know when the child-care work is equally shared. You'll know by your lack of resentment. Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist. And
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#24. The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.
Grover Cleveland
#26. The things that cannot be talked about logically are the only ones which are truly important.
Apostolos Doxiadis
#27. (which has inspired at least one novel, Apostolos Doxiadis's Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture29).
John Derbyshire
#28. We don't know how to insult you any more' (Inter fan banner, directed at their own team)
John Foot
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