Selimovic Dervis Quotes

#1. Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

Dodie Smith

#2. By doubting we come to inquiry. By inquiry we come to Truth.

Peter Abelard

#3. What is Jordan that I should wash in it? What is the preaching that I should attend on it, while I hear nothing but what I knew before? What are these beggarly elements of water, bread, and wine? Are not these the reasonings of a soul that forgets who appoints the means of grace?

William Gurnall

#4. Out of all the piles of dirt, garbage, and shit we have been handed, we can grow a patch of daisies.

Patti Feuereisen

#5. It felt like lying, only better, because he couldn't be caught, and he couldn't be caught because there was nothing to verify it against. Immersed in the flow of bullshit, they had no reason, or time, not to believe him.

Aleksandar Hemon

#6. Imagine a world where unbelievers were critical of what we believed but envious of how well we treated one another.

Andy Stanley

#7. Big whirls have little whirls,
That feed on their velocity;
And little whirls have lesser whirls,
And so on to viscosity.

Lewis Fry Richardson