Jerzy Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Jerzy
Jerzy Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Jerzy quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Life is complicated, but not uninteresting
— Jerzy Neyman
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Never turn your back on reality. It surrounds you.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If you are not a psychiatrist, stay away from idiots. They are too stupid to pay a layman for his company.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You cannot play the Song of Freedom on an instrument of oppression.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Do I have no soul as punishment for not believing in the soul?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
How many prison years in the years since Christ!
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I prefer the sign NO ENTRANCE to the sign which says NO EXIT.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Life is a state of mind.
— Jerzy Kosinski
He had a clear conscience. Never used it.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I am inspired by human sexuality. The act itself is mechanical and holds little interest to me.
— Jerzy Kosinski
To whom should we marry Freedom, to make it multiply?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Living is an arbitrary matter and I have every right to renounce it.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Impartiality is not neutrality. It is partiality for justice.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
An empty envelope that is sealed contains a secret.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.
— Jerzy Kukuczka
Do I believe? God only knows.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Climbing is a great effort, but the extraordinary pleasure.
— Jerzy Kukuczka
Mankind deserves sacrifice - but not of mankind.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
One has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
— Jerzy Kosinski
We understand everything; that is why we understand nothing.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I am curious about grownups, not children.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Our language has lost its ability to convey the spontaneous.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Vaclav Havel is the figure that represents the Velvet Revolution and the reunification of Europe. He will be sorely missed.
— Jerzy Buzek
It is not sex by itself that interests me, but its particular role in American consciousness, and in my own life.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Of all mammals, only a human being can say 'no.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You don't 'love' people when they are 'nice'. Don't you see that's the same as saying 'what's in it for me'?
— Jerzy Pilch
Take whatever you can from others, and when there is nothing left, forget about them.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Most of the sighs we hear have been edited.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The greater the dark, the easier to be a star.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There were grammatical errors even in his silence.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
So this is insanity. How interesting. What happens next?
— Jerzy Kosinski
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Even Einstein had to rely for his time on his clock.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Sometimes you have to be silent to be heard.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The closer to the top, the more grew in me the belief that it might be fulfilled, which most dreaming.
— Jerzy Kukuczka
The spirit of the times can haunt even the atheists.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Whenever man begins to doubt himself, he does something so stupid that he is reassured.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It's the priests who have demands, not the gods.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
To god what is God's, to Caesar what is Caesar's. To humans - what?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Love and respect are above any law
— Uri Jerzy Nachimson
You don't die in the United States, you underachieve.
— Jerzy Kosinski
All my father saw was what he wanted to see.
— Jerzy Kosinski
She protected herself by making herself believe no-one else could ever really understand her.
— Jerzy Kosinski
It seems that what I really want is a drug that will increase my consciousness of others, not myself.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Those who put blinders on their eyes should remember that the set also includes bridle and a whip.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
All Gods were immortal.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Who ever asked theses and antitheses if they want to become syntheses?
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?"- from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird — Jerzy Kosinski
Even the voice of conscience undergoes mutation.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The man who bows before the ruler, shows his behind to the courtiers
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity
— Jerzy Kosinski
Where a harsh law rules, people yearn for lawlessness.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I wasnt political in order to be political
— Jerzy Grotowski
An error becomes an error when born as truth.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Creativity is an integral part of our personality.
— Jerzy Vetulani
Oh, to know God's private address.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There must be no worse punishment to a totalitarian nation than the withdrawal of capital.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Here lies William Trollope, Who made these stones roll up; When death took his soul up, His body filled this hole up
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
I'm sure there are aspects of my personality buried within me that will surface as soon as I know I am completely loved.
— Jerzy Kosinski
The exit is usually where the entrance was.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.
— Jerzy Kosinski
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
— Jerzy Kosinski
When people claim to know who I am, I can no longer act freely.
— Jerzy Kosinski
Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Do not make gods in your own images.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
There were innumerable selves that he evoked in her.
— Jerzy Kosinski
He who limps is still walking.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Do not ask God the way to heaven; he will show you the hardest one.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Love of one's country recognizes no frontiers ... of other countries.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
Many who had been ahead of their time, had to wait for her in very uncomfortable quarters.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
If one is seeking for Heaven on earth, has slept in geography class.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec