Than - Quotes
We humans are far more than the jobs we do and the careers we pursue. Education is a preparation for life, and only part of that is the mastery of specific work skills.
Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries.
Having lots of ideas doesn`t mean you`re clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you`re a good general.
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other`s eyes for an instant?
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
How do I really feel about the possibility that all my actions, and those of my friends, are ultimately governed by mathematical principles (...)? I can live with that. I would, indeed, prefer to have these actions controlled by something residing in some (...) aspect of Plato`s fabulous mathematical world than to have them be subject to the kind of simplistic base motives, such as pleasure-seeking, personal greed, or aggressive violence, that many would argue to be the implications of a strictly scientific standpoint.
Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate.
Your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
If you hear advice from a grandmother or elders, odds are that it works 90 percent of the time. On the other hand [...] if you read anything by psychologists and behavioral scientists, odds are that it works at less than 10 percent, unless it is has also been covered by the grandmother and the classics, in which case why would you need a psychologist?
It is much easier to do business with the owner of the business than some employee who is likely to lose his job next year; likewise it is easier to trust the word of an autocrat than a fragile elected official.
Learning is rooted in repetition [...], meaning that the reading of a single text twice is more profitable than reading two different things once, provided of course that said text has some depth of content.
One day can bring you back from the brink change. And one single day can fill us with more possibilities than we could imagine.
Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate.
I have always wanted to be loved by someone in the way that you loved me. And I would rather have those memories than any future where I destroy them.
A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.