« All Diving Quotes · Arthur Koestler's Page

Diving Quotes by Arthur Koestler

1 Diving quote by Arthur Koestler

Some tribes [of monkeys] have taken to washing potatoes in the river before eating them, others have not. Sometimes migrating groups of potato-washers meet non-washers,…

More Quotes by Arthur Koestler

Arthur Koestler has 111 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of…
There is only one prospect worse than being chained to an intolerable existence: The nightmare of a botched attempt to end it.
Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will…
If the creator has a purpose in equipping us with a neck, he surely would have meant for us to stick it…
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.
As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe…
The real achievement in discoveries ... is seeing an analogy where no one saw one before. .. The essence of discovery is…
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a…
In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of…
When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field…
No writer or teacher or artist can escape the responsibility of influencing others whether he intends to or not, whether he is…

See all 111 quotes by Arthur Koestler »

More Diving Quotes

Popular Diving quotes from across the collection:

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls. — Honore de Balzac
Leadership is diving for a loose ball, getting the crowd involved, getting other players involved. It's being able to take it as… — Larry Bird
I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13… — Jo Brand
I do an awful lot of scuba diving. I love to be on the ocean, under the ocean. I live next to… — James Cameron
I have spent much time in the study of the abstract sciences; but the paucity of persons with whom you can communicate… — Blaise Pascal
Meditation is not 'going somewhere;' it's diving deep here, this moment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through… — Dawn Fraser
We had a word with him about diving and since then the lad's come on leaps and bounds. — Unknown Author
Men are not free when they're doing just what they like. Men are only free when they're doing what the deepest self… — D. H. Lawrence
Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
I have a great deal of respect for Mark Gordon’s work and am confident that together we can bring the beauty and… — Douglas Gresham
There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most… — Graham Hancock

See all Diving Quotes »

Browse Arthur Koestler Quotes by Category