583 Quotes by Dutch authors

Dutch quotations speak in a clear, salt-tinged voice: nuchterheid over ornament, warmth without fuss. They weigh freedom against responsibility, thrift against generosity, and often settle matters by polderen rather than thunder. Water is never far, erosion, dikes, horizons, and neither is irony, a soft grin beneath Calvinist sobriety. From Spinoza’s cool reason to Multatuli’s sharp conscience, the language favors plain words that carry long echoes. Expect frankness, quiet tenderness, and a talent for turning daily life, bicycles, rain, shared tables, into hard-earned wisdom.

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"Women, can't live with them, can't live without them"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Is prayer your steering wheel or your spare tire?"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"If we are to preserve culture, we must continue to create it"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us"

Johan Huizinga, Historian

Johan Huizinga

"Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

Guido van Rossum

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

Edsger Dijkstra

"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

Edsger Dijkstra

"Hold loosely to the things of this life, so that if God requires them of you, it will be easy to let them go"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Every disadvantage has its advantage"

Johan Cruijff, Athlete

"In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel the stress of the storm"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

Edsger Dijkstra

"If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God, you'll be at rest"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Discernment is God's call to intercession, never to faultfinding"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

Edsger Dijkstra

"If the devil cannot make us bad, he will make us busy"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process"

Vincent Van Gogh, Artist

Vincent Van Gogh

"For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"God buries our sins in the depths of the sea and then puts up a sign that reads, 'No fishing'"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"He who allows oppression shares the crime"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"Fortune favors the audacious"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith"

Abraham Kuyper, Theologian

"Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"Python is an experiment in how much freedom programmers need. Too much freedom and nobody can read another's code; too little and expressiveness is endangered"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

Guido van Rossum

"If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

Guido van Rossum

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand"

Baruch Spinoza, Philosopher

Baruch Spinoza

"Jesus did not promise to change the circumstances around us. He promised great peace and pure joy to those who would learn to believe that God actually controls all things"

Corrie ten Boom, Celebrity

Corrie ten Boom

"Prevention is better than cure"

Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher

Desiderius Erasmus

"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California"

Edsger Dijkstra, Scientist

Edsger Dijkstra

"Mark Hammond is working in this area, with Windows Scripting Host. It is definitely an area where Python fits almost perfectly. That's quite independent from Java, actually"

Guido van Rossum, Scientist

Guido van Rossum

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