Nasreddin Quotes

#1. One of the neighbors found Nasreddin scattering crumbs all around his house. "Why are you doing that?" he asked. "I'm keeping the tigers away," replied Nasreddin. "But there aren't any tigers around here," said the neighbor. "That's right," said Nasreddin. "You see how well it works?

Nasreddin

#2. Sold my guitar to the baker's son for a few crumbs and a place to hide.

Bob Dylan

#3. Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations ... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher ... We've got it all.

Barack Obama

#4. And so you know what I did with those sad things? I put them in boxes. I put the sad things in the boxes in my head, and I closed them up and I put tape on them and I stacked them up in the corner and threw a blanket over them."
"Braintape?

Maggie Stiefvater

#5. I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist.

Joe Biden

#6. Knowledge is like the carrot, few know by looking at the green top that the best part, the orange part, is there. Like the carrot, if you don't work for it, it will wither away and rot. And finally, like the carrot, there are a great many donkeys and jackasses that are associated with it.

Nasreddin

#7. Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without.

Nikola Tesla

#8. It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual

Jacob Bronowski

#9. A man called, wanting to borrow a rope. "You cannot have it," said Nasrudin. "Why not?" "Because it is in use." "But I can see it just lying there, on the ground." "That's right: that's its use.

Nasreddin

#10. I don't have a brother in real life.

Louis C.K.

#11. The key that will open the gateway to unburden our anger can only be forged through understanding.

Robert Palasciano

#12. in space-time, past, present, and future are all part of an integrated four-dimensional structure in which all of space and all of time exist perpetually. Imagine

Mo Gawdat

#13. TURNING YOUR MIND toward the dharma does not bring security or confirmation. Turning your mind toward the dharma does not bring any ground to stand on. In fact, when your mind turns toward the dharma, you fearlessly acknowledge impermanence and change and begin to get the knack of hopelessness.

Pema Chodron

#14. Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.

Lennon Parham

#15. Listening is not waiting for your turn to talk

S.E. Sever