“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin
Category: Quotes
Knowing something – Richard Feynman
“There’s a huge difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
We talk in fact-deficient, obfuscating generalities to cover up our lack of understanding.”
– Richard Feynman
Terms – T.S. Eliot
“If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.”
– T.S. Eliot
Mistakes – James Joyce
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
– James Joyce
Uncertainty – Tim Ferriss
“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
– Tim Ferriss
No one loves – Aristotle
“No one loves the man he fears.”
– Aristotle
Love – Albert Camus
“It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.”
– Albert Camus
Loved – Freud
“How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.”
– Freud
Understand – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Every man hears only what he understands.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Character – Aristotle
“Character is determined by choice, not opinion.”
– Aristotle
No – Rosa Parks
“No.”
– Rosa Parks
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Intellectual Grace – David Perell
“Philosophy, like regular life, is best experienced with an attitude of intellectual grace.
‘What can this person teach me?’ is a much more productive question than ‘How is this person wrong?’
– David Perell
Curious – Albert Einstein
“I have no special gift. I am just passionately curious”
– Albert Einstein
Life – John Wooden
“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
– John Wooden