Nesciveris Quotes

#1. Know not what you know, and see not what you see.
[Lat., Etiam illud quod scies nesciveris;
Ne videris quod videris.]

Plautus

#2. Two good indicators of revealed preferences are things the people tend to value a lot: time and money. If you look at how they spend their time and how they spend their money, you can infer quite a lot about their real preferences.

Douglas W. Hubbard

#3. Don't Listen To What People Tell You... Listen To Your Soul And Pickle Juice.

Hannah Haynes

#4. I've personally reached the point where the sound of MP3s are so uncompelling, because so much is lost in translation.

Beck

#5. Any person with the brains to get into the IIT's and the gumption to get himself to the United States was capable of all manner of miracles.

Michael Lewis

#6. I've been trying not to think about the things I wanted but couldn't have.
I figured life must be about what you can't have.
Some part of me has given up wanting anything.
Why? I'm human, aren't I?
Even though I knew that this was pointless.
Why did I fall in love?

Kou Yoneda

#7. As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#8. Death is the opposite of birth. It is a change of state." He

Ayse Hafiza

#9. There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.

Eben Alexander

#10. I have a really analytical approach to art. And the whole idea that you can't analyze what makes a joke funny ... I do not agree with that at all.

David Rees

#11. There's little question that short stories, like poetry, don't get the respect they deserve in the culture - but what can you do? Like Canute, one cannot fight the sea, you have to go with your love, and hope one day, things change.

Junot Diaz

#12. 'Instagram' can engage generations of people that may not be on Facebook yet. I think that's true with 'WhatsApp,' and I think that will be true with things like Oculus.

Kevin Systrom

#13. The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

Pam Brown

#14. Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For

Jonathan Sacks

#15. Some people put more effort and money into the wedding day than they do into the marriage itself, then it's all downhill from there. I was happy for a simple start; things could only get better.

Sam Torode

#16. If these pages are thick with death, think of the battlefield. Corpses in different stages of decay, the slowly dying, moments of death exist around you everywhere. Who are you? You are among the living, but can you be certain?

Susan Griffin