top of page
.png){kind=small}
Quotes by Polish Authors
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides."
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
"The planned sit-down reception is an artificial forum where one is presented with a limited number of persons with whom he can hold a conversation."
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
"We are told that the possession of nuclear weapons - in some cases even the testing of these weapons - is essential for national security. But this argument can be made by other countries as well."
"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
"A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems; a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories."
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."
"The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?"
"I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly."
"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."
"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
"Therefore I would not have it unknown to Your Holiness, the the only thing which induced me to look for another way of reckoning the movements of the heavenly bodies was that I knew that mathematicians by no means agree in their investigation thereof."
"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
"Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941."
"I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day."
"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
"Amin hid nothing. Everybody knew everything. Yet the American Senate only introduced a resolution breaking off trade with Amin three months before his overthrow."
"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."
"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
"Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create."
"This means that the only function of nuclear weapons, while they exist, is to deter a nuclear attack."
"If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God."
"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
"Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering."
"Suddenly, the screens were dominated by American entertainment to the extent of something like 95 percent. As a result, audiences turned away from the kinds of films that we used to make."
"Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them."
"There are no ugly women, only lazy ones."
"I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing."
"So I think that is one of the reasons we can face some regional problems, which are very difficult, very dramatic and is necessary to have instruments to solve these problems. NATO is such instrument."
"It was never really my choice to be an action heroine."
bottom of page