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Interesting Quotes

1.
If you tell a lie long enough, it becomes the truth.
Joseph Goebbels

Propagate a falsehood long enough, and it will be accepted as fact.
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2.
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.
Isaac Newton

'The improbability of atheism is evident when one considers the exact positioning of the Earth in relation to the Sun, ensuring an ideal balance of warmth and illumination.'
3.
The person you are is a thousand times more interesting than the best actor you could ever hope to be.
Constantin Stanislavski

You are infinitely more captivating than any fictional character you could ever pretend to be.
4.
You know, what's interesting is, being your own self is kind of a blur.
David Chase

Exploring one's own identity can be a confusing experience.
5.
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
Henry David Thoreau

'Those who take the path less travelled are rewarded with unique experiences.'
6.
Never allow yourself externally to portray anything that you have not inwardly experienced and which is not even interesting to you.
Constantin Stanislavski

Refrain from feigning any enthusiasm that you have not genuinely felt and are not truly enthused by.
7.
I’m a big fan of parrots - I think they’re fascinating creatures. Many of them live for longer than us humans and it's interesting to me the way they learn to mimic human voices even though they don't really comprehend what they're saying.
Derren Brown

8.
How can we, with our adult minds, know what will be interesting? If you follow the child...you can find out something new.
Jean Piaget

"Utilizing our mature cognizance, how can we determine what will be captivating? If you shadow the youngster...you can unearth something unprecedented."
9.
You have to be interested. If you're not interested, you can't be interesting.
Iris Apfel

You must be captivated. If you're not engaged, it won't be engaging.
10.
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions.
Thomas Jefferson

11.
Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.
Richard P. Feynman

12.
...handsome people are always interesting to watch. But a handsome person in crisis is riveting.
Augusten Burroughs

'Attractive people are always captivating to observe. But an attractive individual in difficulty is transfixing.'
13.
One must never miss an opportunity of quoting things by others which are always more interesting than those one thinks up oneself.
Marcel Proust

One must never let slip the chance to reference statements by others which are invariably more intriguing than one's own.
14.
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
Melanie Klein

The novice analyst of children can be startled at the tremendous acumen displayed by young children, oftentimes exceeding that of their grown counterparts.
15.
The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.
Vladimir Lenin

The media should not only be a collective instructor and rouser of public opinion, but also a collective mobilizer of the people.
16.
You can't just be talented: You have to be terribly smart and energetic and ruthless. You also have to become necessary to people, by working hard and well and bringing more than your bones and your skin to the project. Don't just show up. Transform the work, yourself, and everybody around you. Be needed. Be interesting. Be something no one else can be--and consistently.
Katharine Hepburn

17.
People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.
Oliver Sacks

Individuals will construct a life according to their own desires, regardless of whether they possess hearing loss or visual impairment or any other special need. And their world will be just as vibrant and stimulating and rewarding as ours.
18.
This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it
John Dalton

This paper will surely be captivating to those who are fascinated by it.
19.
I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.
John Mulaney

I have many anecdotes from my childhood since that was the final point of my captivating life.
20.
Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.
Louise Bourgeois

Relay your own narrative and you will be captivating.
21.
The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.
Ronald Reagan

The individual who is in accord with you for the majority of the time is an associate and a supporter - not a minor opponent.
22.
Interesting things happen when the creative impulse is cultivated with curiosity, freedom and intensity.
Saul Bass

Enlightening events occur when the imaginative drive is nurtured with inquisitiveness, autonomy and fervor.
23.
The most interesting painting is one that expresses more of what one thinks than of what one sees
Mark Rothko

The most alluring artwork is one that communicates more of what one feels than of what one perceives.
24.
If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.
Isa Blagden

If a falsehood is propagated sufficiently, it eventually morphs into a pseudo-fact, and if this fabrication is reiterated enough times, it will become an accepted principle, an unquestioned belief, and people will fight for it.
25.
Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
Frederick The Great

A diplomatic orchestra without instruments is like a silent symphony.
26.
The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
Vladimir Lenin

Subjugate the bourgeoisie by utilizing fiscal levies and rising prices.
27.
Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.
Mark Twain

Those who are not literate have no benefit over those who lack literacy.
28.
The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.
Vladimir Lenin

29.
While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.
Edmund Hillary

30.
So you know cats are interesting. They are kind of like girls. If they come and talk to you it's great. But if you try to talk to them it doesn't always go so well.
Shigeru Miyamoto

31.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
Stephen Jay Gould

32.
The challenge for a human now is to be more interesting to another than his or her smartphone.
Alain de Botton

33.
With opportunity the world is very interesting.
Beatrix Potter

34.
I have no romantic feelings about age. Either you are interesting at any age or you are not. There is nothing particularly interesting about being old - or being young, for that matter.
Katharine Hepburn

35.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
A. A. Gill

36.
If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.
Sandra Cisneros

37.
I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
Conor Oberst

38.
I think I’ve said this before many times—that photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you had never paid any attention to. And as you photograph, one of the benefits is that the world becomes a much richer, juicier, visual place. Sometimes it is almost unbearable — it is too interesting. And it isn’t always just the photos you take that matters. It is looking at the world and seeing things that you never photograph that could be photographs if you had the energy to keep taking pictures every second of your life.
Saul Leiter

39.
Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it
Socrates

40.
I keep myself content by doing lots of different stuff and make sure that my next role is completely different to the last. I just enjoy the versatility of it, the challenge of doing lots of different things. It keeps the job interesting.
David Thewlis

41.
You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.
Vivienne Westwood

42.
Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.
Rem Koolhaas

43.
It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.
Ellen DeGeneres

44.
I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
Clifton Fadiman

45.
If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

46.
I was in school studying civil engineering. A guy approached me on the street and said that I had a interesting look-very exotic. He told me I should try to be in the industry.
Thuy Trang

47.
Graffiti writers will never stop. They'll just evolve. It's interesting what ideas people come up with and how it all extends forward.
Ben Eine

48.
Now I feel I have an unspoken deal with the paparazzi: 'I won't do anything publicly interesting if you agree not to follow me.'
Matt Damon

49.
If only this toothache would go away, I could write another chapter on the problem of pain.
C. S. Lewis

50.
It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.
U.G. Krishnamurti