Wijze Lessen Quotes

#1. Whether you take a doughnut hole as blank space or as an entity unto itself is a purely metaphysical question and does not affect the taste of the doughnut one bit. Sitting

Haruki Murakami

#2. We hear wonderful stories about some masters who can walk on water and do all kinds of great things. But the real power of the teacher is to transmit power and knowledge directly to an individual.

Frederick Lenz

#3. Light creates ambience and feel of a place, as well as the expression of a structure.

Le Corbusier

#4. His body was so skeletal and his clothes so rotted that at first Bran took him for another corpse, a dead man propped up so long that the roots had grown over him, under him, and through him. What skin the corpse lord showed was white, save for a bloody blotch that crept up his neck onto his cheek.

George R R Martin

#5. Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

#6. So long as the Zulu people are here, clearly I will still have a role to play in this country.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#7. How can we turn our back on an endeavor which increases our children's cultural intelligence, heightens individual sensitivity and deepens our collective sense of humanity? I suggest to you that we cannot.

Alec Baldwin

#8. John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around.

Edsger Dijkstra

#9. The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.

Daisaku Ikeda

#10. I think it is an intelligent story [The Intruders]. You've got adult characters who are in search of some things that are out there that we sense are out there, but we don't have any proof. John's character stumbles into that situation.

Glen Morgan

#11. Awright - take 'im." He did not look down at the dog at all. He lay back on his bunk and crossed his arms behind his head and stared at the ceiling. From

John Steinbeck

#12. A sheltered life knows no risk or consequence.

Jeremiah Cross

#13. A world will come over you, the happiness, the wealth, the inconceivable greatness of a world.

Rainer Maria Rilke