I Like a Good Quote
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Aristotle -
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) -
One owes respect to the living: To the Dead one owes only the truth.
Isaac Asimov -
Not only do we not understand the universe, if someone explained it to us, we wouldn’t know what he was talking about.
St. Augustine -
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Marcus Aurelius –
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Mikhail Bakunin -
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Matsuo Basho –
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Frederic Bastiat –
Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
Georges Bataille –
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Henry Ward Beecher –
A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Daniel J. Boorstin –
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Ray Bradbury -
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you’ll never learn.
Louis Brandeis –
That which is man-made can be unmade.
David Brin –
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) –
There is the seed of all sins — of the vilest and worst of sins — in the best of men.
Edmund Burke –
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Susanna Centlivre –
Want is the mistress of invention.
Naom Chomsky -
Of course, everybody says they’re for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: ‘What kind of peace?’
Marcus Cicero –
The beginning of all things are small.
Tom Clancy –
The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
Arthur C. Clarke –
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Confucius -
The virtuous is frank and open; the non-virtuous is secretive and worrying.
Cyril Connolly –
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Bill Cosby –
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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Aristotle -
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire) -
One owes respect to the living: To the Dead one owes only the truth.
Isaac Asimov -
Not only do we not understand the universe, if someone explained it to us, we wouldn’t know what he was talking about.
St. Augustine -
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
Marcus Aurelius –
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Mikhail Bakunin -
By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.
Matsuo Basho –
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
Frederic Bastiat –
Competition is merely the absence of oppression.
Georges Bataille –
The essence of morality is a questioning about morality; and the decisive move of human life is to use ceaselessly all light to look for the origin of the opposition between good and evil.
Henry Ward Beecher –
A tool is but the extension of a man’s hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. And he that invents a machine augments the power of a man and the well-being of mankind.
Daniel J. Boorstin –
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.
Ray Bradbury -
If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you’ll never learn.
Louis Brandeis –
That which is man-made can be unmade.
David Brin –
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
Thomas Brooks (Puritan) –
There is the seed of all sins — of the vilest and worst of sins — in the best of men.
Edmund Burke –
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Susanna Centlivre –
Want is the mistress of invention.
Naom Chomsky -
Of course, everybody says they’re for peace. Hitler was for peace. Everybody is for peace. The question is: ‘What kind of peace?’
Marcus Cicero –
The beginning of all things are small.
Tom Clancy –
The difference between reality and fiction? Fiction has to make sense.
Arthur C. Clarke –
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.
Confucius -
The virtuous is frank and open; the non-virtuous is secretive and worrying.
Cyril Connolly –
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
Bill Cosby –
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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