#advice

Never f*!k with the ineffable. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#humor #religion #religion

[L]et us talk about the unholy vice of self-esteem, the beginning and completion of the passions; and let us talk briefly, for to undertake an exhaustive discussion would be to act like someone who inquires into the weight of the winds. ↗

— Saint John Climacus

#good-phrase #religion-is-wrong #religion

Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#paradox #advice

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#good-advice #science

To be a writer, you must write. To be a published writer you must finish what you write and then get what you've written in front of the outside world. ↗

— George H. Scithers

#science

I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#ask #dads #different #fathers #i

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading. ↗

— David Bailey

#best #ever #got #i #keep

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#advice #ask #looking #usually

I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if they're about people the writer doesn't like very much. ↗

— Penelope Fitzgerald

#writing-advice #writing-craft #writing-humor #love

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. ↗

— Katherine Hepburn

#marriage