Sigf S Sigur Sson Quotes

#1. I believe that the old man did indeed have far too narrow an idea of what a vision might be. He may, so to speak, have been too dazzled by the great light of his experience to realize that an impressive sun shines on us all.

Marilynne Robinson

#2. She ate her breakfast in silence, then drove downtown in weather so lowering the streetlights seemed decapitated. This was when you could discover if your preparations for winter were adequate, and if you were ready for the restrictions of movement and light that were about to be upon you.

Thomas McGuane

#3. Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#4. In a world full of experts, making your own mistakes is invaluable

Georgina Zuvela

#5. Parents - and teachers too - are woefully short-sighted when they try to protect the child from his mistakes, when they make the "right answer" more important than the quest for knowledge and good judgment. For what is not learned within one's self cannot be learned from another.

Sydney J. Harris

#6. Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

Tryon Edwards

#7. I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.

Sebastian Coe

#8. True worship must include inward feelings that reflect the worth of God's glory.

John Piper