Wislawa Szymborska on knowledge
Wislawa Szymborska73 quotes“Any knowledge that doesn’t lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life.”
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At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn’t possible to save mankind.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska I’m fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Secret codes resound. Doubts and intentions come to light.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska God was finally going to believe in a man both good and strong, but good and strong are still two different men.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Existentialists are monumentally and monotonously serious; they don’t like to joke.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska I’m one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Even boredom should be described with gusto. How many things are happening on a day when nothing happens?
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one’s behind me, anyway.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Nothing’s a gift, it’s all on loan.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
Wislawa SzymborskaWislawa Szymborska Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work!
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True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
John CalvinJohn Calvin Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph StalinJoseph Stalin I scarcely know the meaning of your question; much less can I answer it.
BoethiusBoethius Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
John CalvinJohn Calvin New media is an amazing form of direct marketing in that you really get a sense of who your customer is, and you also get to know those people who may not be your customers yet but are aspirational and are hoping to be.
Ivanka TrumpIvanka Trump Most of the narcissists are geniuses and masters of Psychology. But they are using their knowledge to eradicate, rather than to help humanity.
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