Fausto Quotes

#1. It's not good ... Reading and eating at the same time. The stomach needs blood for digestion. When you read, the brain steals the blood. - Fausto

Mark Mills

#2. Trust yourself. Even if you're really, really scared, never let on that you are.

Fausto Brizzi

#3. As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

Fausto Cercignani

#4. Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.

Fausto Cercignani

#5. Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill

Fausto Coppi

#6. I have nothing more than that to ask of the stars.

Fausto Brizzi

#7. He hands me a paper sack. I don't need to open it to know what's inside. There's a smudge of grease at the bottom.

Fausto Brizzi

#8. A secret remains a secret until you make someone promise never to reveal it.

Fausto Cercignani

#9. The only regret I have is that I had to discover I was dying in order to start really living." -Lucio-

Fausto Brizzi

#10. Women, who are smarter than men in everything, mysteriously, don't seem to know how to parallel park.

Fausto Brizzi

#11. Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others.

Fausto Cercignani

#12. Ride your bike, ride your bike, ride your bike.

Fausto Coppi

#13. If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.

Fausto Cercignani

#14. Scientists who do deny their politics - who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex - are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

#15. The important thing is to make sure that when death comes, it finds us still alive.

Fausto Brizzi

#16. Ever since the field of biology emerged in the United States and Europe at the start of the nineteenth century, it has been bound up in debates over sexual, racial, and national politics. And as our social viewpoints have shifted, so has the science of the body.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

#17. . . . human beings . . . [are] divided into "book benders" and "non-book benders." The former are happier.

Fausto Brizzi

#18. Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

Fausto Cercignani

#19. Once I believed that sooner or later I would come across a really wise person; today I couldn't even say what wisdom is.

Fausto Cercignani

#20. It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

Fausto Cercignani

#21. Sometimes real troubles give you strength you never had before." -Lucio-

Fausto Brizzi

#22. Secret thoughts are only half free: they fly undisturbed in the skies of the inner freedom, but they can never leave them.

Fausto Cercignani

#23. Scientists do not simply read nature to find truths to apply in the social world. Instead, they use truths taken from our social relationships to structure, read, and interpret the natural

Anne Fausto-Sterling

#24. When you would suffocate or ignore dissent, remember how many times you dissented.

Fausto Cercignani

#25. Your identity is like your shadow: not always visible and yet always present.

Fausto Cercignani

#26. Personal dignity is to be measured with the yardstick of one's conscience, not with that of other people's judgement.

Fausto Cercignani

#27. Every one of us has already experienced thousands of last times without even realizing it. Most of the time, in fact, you never even imagine that what you're experiencing is the last time.

Fausto Brizzi

#28. There's elbow room, a value we've forgotten we ever had.

Fausto Brizzi

#29. We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.

Fausto Cercignani

#30. I know her by heart, and that doesn't make me love her any less. Like a Dante scholar who learns the entire Divine Comedy and then just appreciates the poem even more profoundly.

Fausto Brizzi

#31. Unlike money, hope is all: for the rich as well as for the poor.

Fausto Cercignani

#32. Always remember that the only riches we possess are the dreams we have as children. They are the fuel of our lives, the only force that pushes us to keep on going even when things have gone all wrong.

Fausto Brizzi

#33. Cycling is suffering.

Fausto Coppi

#34. Inner freedom demands the rejection of any imposition that injures our dignity.

Fausto Cercignani