I Like a Good Quote
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Carl Sagan –
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
George Santayana –
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Jean-Paul Sartre –
When we say that man chooses for himself, we do mean that every one of us must choose himself; but by that we also mean that in choosing for himself he chooses for all men. For in effect, of all the actions a man may take in order to create himself as he wills to be, there is not one which is not creative, at the same time, of an image of man such as he believes he ought to be. To choose between this or that is at the same time to affirm the value of that which is chosen; for we are unable ever to choose the worse. What we choose is always the better; and nothing can be better for us unless it is better for all.
Marilyn vos Savant –
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Arthur Schopenhauer –
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
George Bernard Shaw -
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
B.F. (Burrhus Frederic) Skinner –
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Ralph W. Sockman –
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Potter Stewart –
Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.
Max Stirner –
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self.
Thomas Sydenham –
Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.
Alfred Tennyson –
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Henry David Thoreau –
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Thucydides –
When one is deprived of one’s liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
James Thurber –
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Frank Tibolt –
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Leo Tolstoy –
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
Lao Tzu –
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Sun Tzu –
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
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Carl Sagan –
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
George Santayana –
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Jean-Paul Sartre –
When we say that man chooses for himself, we do mean that every one of us must choose himself; but by that we also mean that in choosing for himself he chooses for all men. For in effect, of all the actions a man may take in order to create himself as he wills to be, there is not one which is not creative, at the same time, of an image of man such as he believes he ought to be. To choose between this or that is at the same time to affirm the value of that which is chosen; for we are unable ever to choose the worse. What we choose is always the better; and nothing can be better for us unless it is better for all.
Marilyn vos Savant –
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Arthur Schopenhauer –
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
George Bernard Shaw -
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
B.F. (Burrhus Frederic) Skinner –
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Ralph W. Sockman –
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Potter Stewart –
Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself.
Max Stirner –
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self.
Thomas Sydenham –
Disease is nothing else but an attempt on the part of the body to rid itself of morbific matter.
Alfred Tennyson –
He makes no friend who never made a foe.
Henry David Thoreau –
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Thucydides –
When one is deprived of one’s liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.
James Thurber –
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
Frank Tibolt –
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action.
Leo Tolstoy –
Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.
Lao Tzu –
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Sun Tzu –
All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack, we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive; when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must make him believe we are near.
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