Majlis Ilmu Quotes

#1. [Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Scientific research is a bottomless money pit. You can approximate Doing Science to standing on the Crack of Doom throwing banknotes down it by the double-handful, in the hope that if you choke the volcano with enough paper it will cough up the One Ring.

Charles Stross

#3. don't mistake a new place for a new you.

Sara Zarr

#4. Texas Senator Ted Cruz said if elected president he would abolish the Department of Education. But not to worry. He promised to replace it with the less expensive Bureau of Book Learning.

Conan O'Brien

#5. Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

Ada Leverson

#6. [T]he clouds the miller saw as bags of flour, the draper as unironed calico, the confectioner as baked meringue, old Katina the spinster as a bridal veil and Madame Nana as an extension of her climbing rose, while Savvas admired them fulsomely as just clouds.

Ioanna Karystiani

#7. If a piece ofknotted string can unleash the wind and if a drowned man can awaken ... then I believe a broken man can heal.

Annie Proulx

#8. The gifts within you have the power to elevate the world around you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence ...

Adolf Hitler

#10. When Google went into China, there were some people who said they shouldn't compromise at all - that it is very bad for human rights to do so. But there were other people, particularly Chinese people, who said they were glad Google had gone in.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#11. I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.

Jenna Bush

#12. People don't care about health,
they just don't want to be sick.

Richard Diaz

#13. On the positive side, a strong sense of comradely loyalty triggers genuine affection and friendship. On the negative side, it may strengthen contempt for the lives of opponents and, of course, the loss of a comrade may be followed by even greater brutality in battle.

Nel Noddings

#14. It isn't what a man's got in the bank, but what he's got in his head, that makes him a great merchant.

George Horace Lorimer