Dr. Sina > Dr. Sina's Quotes

“An old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb”
― Chinua Achebe

“Looking at a king's mouth, one would think he never sucked at his mother's breast.”
― Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“I can not live on the bank of a river and wash my hands with spittle.”
― Chinua Achebe

“How much of our human feeling can we dispense with in the name of freedom,would you say, before we cease to feel either human or free? Or were we suffering from the incurable English disease of needing to play the world's game when we weren't world players anymore?”
― John le Carré

“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning