Sajith Kumar > Sajith's Quotes

“The difference between a humanist and a lunatic is in fact one of degree”
― Toynbee Arnold Joseph

“Nothing is known perfectly which has not been masticated by the teeth of disputation”
― Robert of Sorbonne

“On a stationary military frontier between a civilization and a barbarism, time always works in the barbarians' favour; and, besides this, the barbarians' advantages increases in geometrical progression at each arithmetical addition to the length of the line which the defenders of the civilization have to hold”
― Toynbee Arnold Joseph

“The weak spot of religion is its ridiculousness”
― Toynbee Arnold Joseph

“Climate refers to the long-term equilibrium that the planet achieves; weather describes short-term deviations from it”
― Nate Silver

“Risk greases the wheels of a free-market economy; uncertainty grinds them to a halt”
― Nate Silver

“Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to ignore risks that threaten their livelihood, as though this will make them go away.”
― Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't

“Innocence is the one thing you can't re-create, can only parody.”
― Andrew Smith

“When too much cynicism threatens to engulf us, it is buoying to remember how pervasive goodness is”
― Carl Sagan

“Where what is known is so surprising and where what is unknown is so extensive, almost anything can be surmised”
― John Keay, The Spice Route: A History

“If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry, that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware of having no good reason for thinking as you do.”
― Bertrand Russell

“If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics”
― Joseph Lagrange

“... as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.”
― Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume I

“Many of the revolutions in science were often the unanticipated outcomes of some of the coincidences in history”
― Sajith Kumar K

“The First War of Independence in 1857 was the final attempt by the weak prince lings of the medieval era to restrain a resurgent India, to hold it back to its withered roots, with wrinkled hands which were already quivering beyond control”
― Sajith Kumar K

“Sati was a custom religiously followed by a few, toed halfheartedly by rather more, sidestepped by many and ignored by most”
― Tim Mackintosh-Smith

“People have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone. Then a person quits the world completely.”
― Raghu Karnad

“As flattering friends mislead, quarreling foes can often correct”
― Saint Augustine

“I'm profoundly convinced that the only antidote that can make the reader forget the perpetual I's the author will be writing, is a perfect sincerity”
― Stendhal (Henri Marie Beyle)

“The ultimate tragedy of Birmingham was not the brutality of the bad people, but the silence of the good people.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“Competition is the school in which companies learn to perfect their skills”
― Gurcharan Das

“Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence”
― Robert Harris

“What starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement”
― Robert Harris, Dictator

“Nothing dries more quickly than a tear”
― Apollonius of Rhodes

“To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of ancestors' by the records of history?”
― Cicerone Marco Tulliio

“If a man should ascend alone into heaven and behold clearly the structure of the universe and the beauty of the stars, there would be no pleasure for him in the awe-inspiring sight, which would have filled him with delight if he had had someone to whom he could describe what he had seen. Nature abhors solitude.”
― Cicerone Marco Tulliio

“Somehow, people always forget that it's much easier to install a dictator than to remove one”
― Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

“Dictators seem to learn from history much better than democrats”
― Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

“If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, compromises on principles are the street lights”
― Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped

“Repression may begin as a means to an end, but it always ends up being an end unto itself”
― Garry Kasparov, Winter Is Coming: Why Vladimir Putin and the Enemies of the Free World Must Be Stopped