Gerolamo Quotes

#1. My father's drinking was sometimes a problem. And a great deal went unspoken. He was not particularly acute or articulate about the emotions. But he was very affectionate towards me.

Ian McEwan

#2. Enlightenment is not like a Big Bang - it is an ongoing process.

Sadghuru

#3. Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division and embellishment, such as astronomy and jurisprudence.

Gerolamo Cardano

#4. The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all.

Gerolamo Cardano

#5. Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that a fact is so is the cause upon which we base the proof.

Gerolamo Cardano

#6. Man is a masterpiece of creation ...

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#7. Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart.

Henry Rollins

#8. Often it's when you come in contact with challenges other people find hard but you find easy that you know you're in possession of a valuable soft asset.3

Reid Hoffman

#9. And I thought:History is like a horror story.

Roberto Bolano

#10. Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.

Monica Potter