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Quotes by Polish Authors
"Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it."
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides."
"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."
"Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color."
"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."
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
"I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy."
"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?"
"Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself."
"Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
"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."
"You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience."
"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."
"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe."
"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."
"I learned English, my sixth language at this point, quite quickly."
"Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941."
"In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons."
"I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art."
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."
"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."
"I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing."
"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."
"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."
"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."
"First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical."
"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 cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."
"How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt."
"You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects."
"All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses."
"You are priests, not social or political leaders. Let us not be under the illusion that we are serving the Gospel through an exaggerated interest in the wide field of temporal problems."
"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."
"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."
"The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream."
"I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship."
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