I Like a Good Quote
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Thomas Jefferson –
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Ba Jin –
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
Samuel Johnson –
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Soren Kierkegaard –
No human being can give an eternal resolution to another or take it from him; If someone objects to that then one might just as well be silent if there is no probability of winning others, he thereby has merely shown that although his life very likely thrived and prospered in probability and everyone of his undertakings in the service of probability went forward, he has never really ventured and consequently has never had or given himself the opportunity to consider that probability is an illusion, but to venture the truth is what gives human life and the human situation pith and meaning, to venture is the fountainhead of inspiration, whereas probability is the sworn enemy of enthusiasm, the mirage whereby the sensate person drags out time and keeps the eternal away, whereby he cheats God, himself, and his generation: cheats God of the honor, himself of liberating annihilation, and his generation of the equality of conditions.
Martin Luther King, Jr. –
Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.
Richard King –
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
Donald Knuth –
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
Vince Lombardi -
The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.
C.S. Lewis –
Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Aaron Libby –
Freedom is not, and never will be, extreme. Control is extreme. Desiring to control someone’s life, for whatever reason, that is extreme.
Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) –
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
John Locke –
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
1 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720866-1-of-9-Aristotle-It-is-the-mark-of-an-educated
2 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720872-2-of-9-Charles-A-Dana-Fight-for-your-opinions-but
3 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720887-3-of-9-John-Kenneth-Galbraith-The-only-function-of
4 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720906-4-of-9-Thomas-Jefferson-Question-with-boldness
5 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720921-5-of-9-Naguib-Mahfouz-You-can-tell-whether-a-man
6 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720932-6-of-9-General-George-S-Patton-Jr-Dont-fight-a
7 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720946-7-of-9-Carl-Sagan-We-live-in-a-society-exquisitely
8 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720957-8-of-9-Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Any-one-who-in-discussion
9 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720970-9-of-9-Anonymous-Classic-Sayings-A-single-blow-of
Thomas Jefferson –
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Ba Jin –
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
Samuel Johnson –
No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.
Soren Kierkegaard –
No human being can give an eternal resolution to another or take it from him; If someone objects to that then one might just as well be silent if there is no probability of winning others, he thereby has merely shown that although his life very likely thrived and prospered in probability and everyone of his undertakings in the service of probability went forward, he has never really ventured and consequently has never had or given himself the opportunity to consider that probability is an illusion, but to venture the truth is what gives human life and the human situation pith and meaning, to venture is the fountainhead of inspiration, whereas probability is the sworn enemy of enthusiasm, the mirage whereby the sensate person drags out time and keeps the eternal away, whereby he cheats God, himself, and his generation: cheats God of the honor, himself of liberating annihilation, and his generation of the equality of conditions.
Martin Luther King, Jr. –
Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.
Richard King –
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.
Donald Knuth –
Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
Vince Lombardi -
The difference between a successful person and others is not lack of strength not a lack of knowledge but rather a lack of will.
C.S. Lewis –
Critics who treat ‘adult’ as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.
Aaron Libby –
Freedom is not, and never will be, extreme. Control is extreme. Desiring to control someone’s life, for whatever reason, that is extreme.
Malcolm Little (Malcolm X) –
Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you’re a man, you take it.
John Locke –
Thus parents, by humouring and cockering them when little, corrupt the principles of nature in their children, and wonder afterwards to taste the bitter waters, when they themselves have poison’d the fountain.
1 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720866-1-of-9-Aristotle-It-is-the-mark-of-an-educated
2 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720872-2-of-9-Charles-A-Dana-Fight-for-your-opinions-but
3 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720887-3-of-9-John-Kenneth-Galbraith-The-only-function-of
4 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720906-4-of-9-Thomas-Jefferson-Question-with-boldness
5 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720921-5-of-9-Naguib-Mahfouz-You-can-tell-whether-a-man
6 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720932-6-of-9-General-George-S-Patton-Jr-Dont-fight-a
7 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720946-7-of-9-Carl-Sagan-We-live-in-a-society-exquisitely
8 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720957-8-of-9-Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Any-one-who-in-discussion
9 of 9: https://similarworlds.com/4429978-I-Like-a-Good-Quote/1720970-9-of-9-Anonymous-Classic-Sayings-A-single-blow-of
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