Micko favourite quotes (page 2) | Quotes of famous people

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations (1988), edited with Jason A. Shulman, p. 281
General sources

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

“I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.”

Charles Manson (1934–2017) American criminal and musician

“If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.”

Tennessee Williams (1911–1983) American playwright

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll

“The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it.”

Rollo May (1909–1994) US psychiatrist

Source: The Courage to Create (1975), Ch. 7 : Passion for Form, p. 131
Context: The human imagination leaps to form the whole, to complete the scene in order to make sense of it. The instantaneous way this is done shows how we are driven to construct the remainder of the scene. To fill the gaps is essential if the scene is to have meaning. That we may do this in misleading ways — at times in neurotic or paranoid ways — does not gainsay the central point. Our passion for form expresses our yearning to make the world adequate to our needs and desires, and, more important, to experience ourselves as having significance.

“I never said to be like me, I say to be like you and make a difference.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

Variant: I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference.

“But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.”

Marilyn Manson (1969) American rock musician and actor

“Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

from poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing.

Appears in movie Jojo Rabbit.
Variant: Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

“The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!”

Mikhail Bulgakov book The Master and Margarita

Book One in 'Nikanor Ivanovich's Dream', B/O
Variant: The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never!
Source: The Master and Margarita (1967)
Context: The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.