A Quote by Rabindranath Tagore

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

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Blade Bleed Hand Knife Like Logic Makes Mind Uses

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Rabindranath Tagore
Indian - Poet
May 7, 1861 - August 7, 1941

The knife is the most durable, immortal, the most genius thing that man created. The knife was the guillotine; the knife is the universal means of solving all knots; and along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox - the single most worthy path of the fearless mind.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Fitness if like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade.

Sally Jenkins

A cold, calculating nightmare. Sharp as a finely honed blade. 'The Lucid Dreaming' cuts, separating the flesh before you even know you've been injured. It makes you bleed as a reader.

Del Howison

Along the blade of a knife lies the path of paradox—the single most worthy path of the fearless mind . . . .

Yevgeny Zamyatin

Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?

Heath Ledger

But a knife ain't just a thing, is it? It's a choice, it's something you do. A knife says yes or no, cut or not, die or don't. A knife takes a decision out of your hand and puts it in the world and it never goes back again.

Patrick Ness

Physiologists and high-performance trainers understand now that the concept of 110 percent is no longer a smart way to train. Fitness is like the blade of a knife; you want to sharpen it without ruining the blade. Give 110 percent, and you won't build your body up, but actually break it down. And be no good to yourself or anyone else.

Sally Jenkins

Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

Hsing Yun

Anger is like the blade of a butcher knife - very difficult to hold on to for long without harming yourself.

Patti LaBelle

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

C.J. Langenhoven

The difference between prose logic and poetic thought is simple. The logician uses words as a builder uses bricks, for the unemotional deadness of his academic prose; and is always coining newer, deader words with a natural preference for Greek formations. The poet avoids the entire vocabulary of logic unless for satiric purposes, and treats words as living creatures with a preference for those with long emotional histories dating from mediaeval times. Poetry at its purest is, indeed, a defiance of logic.

Robert Graves

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

Josh Sundquist

My desires are foolish. The things I want are better kept to myself. The hand of silence is steady. The hard blade of silence is clean like night. The code is absolute. Silence is eternal and patient. Silence never makes a fool of itself like I have so many times.