Kelly Nelson quotes

“Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?”
-- Kelly Nelson

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“If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter.”
-- Kelly Nelson

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“Great men may die, but there ideas won't.”
-- Kelly Nelson

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“Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.”

“One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.”

“Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.”

“There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.”

“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”

“The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.”

“What the problem was was this colossal redundancy, the squandering of brilliant technique on cheap material, ...”

Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”

“Anyone who can say and do anything better than that already done or said anytime, anywhere and considered then the best, then it is good to state for him that he has a brilliant brain in his head.”