Top 27 Doxiadis's Quotes
#1. We do not learn only from great minds; we learn from everyone, if only we observe and inquire.
C.A. Doxiadis
#2. When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.
Leslie Mann
#4. I tell it like it is, but I don't voice my opinion unless it's asked for.
Tito Jackson
#5. To me, Lorelai was equal parts Gal About Town and The Mom, plus a magical mix of smarts and humor that made her totally unique.
Lauren Graham
#7. We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.
Apostolos Doxiadis
#8. We don't all have to take the same coordinates to get to the same destination. Being a young African American female artist, I want to open doors for young black girls.
Janelle Monae
#9. 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
#11. 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
#12. I'm the only member of SFWA in Nebraska, but I don't pine away for the companionship of other science fiction writers. I [go] to very few conventions. I'm quite willing to be that eccentric who has a very odd job, quite happy to be the only science fiction writer in town.
Robert Reed
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. But Judge's lonesomeness was no longer comforting; it was horrific and painful. Judge
A.E. Via
#16. Some of the best movies made about crime are those where the crime solver can get inside the head of the serial killer, and those are the techniques we use in C.S.I.
Paul Guilfoyle
#17. The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings.
Apostolos Doxiadis
#18. Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
Storm Jameson
#19. Hence the tension, the anxiety, the anguish of humanity. The more you fight with death, the more anxiety-ridden you will become, you are bound to become. That's a natural consequence of it.
Rajneesh
#20. February ... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.
Joseph Wood Krutch
#22. Lila walked by with her nose in the air. In a straight line behind her, six obedient kindergartners waddled like baby geese, singing in unison, 'Row, row, row your yacht ...
Francine Pascal
#24. You can find God if you will only seek - by obeying divine laws, by loving people, by relinquishing self-will, attachments, negative thoughts and feelings. And when you find God it will be in stillness. You will find God within.
Peace Pilgrim
#25. A circle looks at a square and sees a badly made circle.
Jeff VanderMeer
#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
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