Age Quotes - Page 206

Experimental science hardly ever affords us more than approximations to the truth; and whenever many agents are concerned we are in great danger of being mistaken.

Language is so different from life. How am I supposed to fit the one into the other? How can I bring them together?

Regarding language as an apparatus of symbols for the conveyance of thought, we may say that, as in a mechanical apparatus, the more simple and the better arranged its parts, the greater will be the effect produced.

Faith is an adventure; it is the courage of the soul to face the unknown. But that courage springs from the hope and confidence of the soul that its adventure will succeed.

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

For repeating themselves from the first kiss to the last sigh, the average man's love affairs have History blushing with envy.

It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more.

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.

The problem is, of course, that not only is economics bankrupt but it has always been nothing more than politics in disguise ... economics is a form of brain damage.

Permit me voyage, love, into your hands.

Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy.

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

It is generally assumed that recurrent miscarriage may be due to progesterone deficiency, hypothyroidism or vitamin E deficiency and should be treated in theses cases with progesterone, thyroid extracts and vitamin E respectively. In theory, thyroid therapy appears to be the least well-founded, especially when applied to women without manifest signs of hypothyroidism, yet among the measures mentioned above it is most frequently claimed to have been successful.

I go from exasperation to a state of collapse, then I recover and go from prostration to Fury, so that my average state is one of being annoyed.

I was born at a very early age. Before I had time to regret it, I was four and a half years old.

It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world of preprogrammed automatons.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

Outperforming the market with low volatility on a consistent basis is an impossibility. I outperformed the market for 30-odd years, but not with low volatility.

When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

I asked many friends if Australian anti-intellectualism was still a living force and they all told me it was. If you are above average intelligence, hide this embarrassing fact.