Quotes, Quotes & Quotes.

One of my favourites from Calvin and Hobbes:

"The surest sign that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."

"I smoke to get high because the world is so low."

- Mr. Solo-Dolo (Kid Cudi)

Some good Nietzsche ones:

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters.

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

I saw this quote up on the movie screen @ Regal theaters two weeks ago, while waiting for a movie to start ---- >> "You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view." - Penelope Cruz


Last night I was watching a guy on PBS - I forgot his name (bald guy who lives in Maui and always is speaking about "Intention" during fund drives), he said this quote in his lecture - - ->> "Rearrange whatever is in front of you." - Virginia Woolf

Some more quotes incoming, this time, being knowledge. There are thousands of them, but I took those that I found interesting.

"It doesn't exist any knowledge that isn't of value" -- Edmund Burke
"The first step to knowledge is our lack of knowledge" -- David Cecil
"There are many wise things that are told jokefully, but that's nothing against those stupidities that are told seriously" -- Torvald Gahlin
"Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything." -- Blaise Pascal
"The more you know, the more you doubt" -- Unknown
"Not before you try to prove the foolishness of others will you become aware of your own foolishness" -- Christine Schneider
"Knowledge is much, but not everything. The essence lies left of the chest" -- Unknown
"There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge." -- Bertrand Russell
"The one that doesn't know something specific, knows something else" -- Kenyansk Ordtak
"Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns" -- John Maurice Clark
"There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination." -- Denis Diderot
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." -- George Bernard Shaw
"The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching." -- Aristotle
"It is better to trade knowledge than to trade something of value" -- Unknown
"The wisest one is the one that doesn't recognize himself as wise" -- Nicolas Boileau
"Knowledge is a process, not a condition" -- Unknown
"It might sound strange but there is no knowledge that can cure stupidity, and normal education just empowers that stupidity" -- Stephen Vizincey
"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind" -- Mason Cooley
"Information is not knowledge." -- Albert Einstein
"Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge" -- Abraham Joshua Herschel
"The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge." -- Unknown
"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it." -- Laurence Sterne
"Trough education have large parts of the population learnt to read although they haven't learnt to read what is worth to read" -- G. M. Trevelyan
"We should be thankful that that foolish people exist. Without them there would be no progress" -- Unknown
"There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it" -- Charles Franklin Kettering
"In today's environment, hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something very important, the way to get power is by actually sharing it." -- Joseph Badaracco
"Profound remarks is the art to get the stupid to feel intelligent and the intelligent to feel stupid" -- Raymond de Grebeau
"Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance." -- Robert Quillen
"Knowledge is fear's antidote" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing." -- Socrates
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." -- Confucius
"The wise tells what he has envisioned, the fool what he heard" -- Turkish proverb
"Confusion is the beginning of wisdom" -- Kahlil Gibran

More incoming, time Nature, Fantasy, Dreams, etc

"Nature is a petrified magic city." -- Novalis
"Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel" -- Ivan Turgenev
"Keep your love of nature, for that is the true way to understand art more and more." -- Vincent van Gogh
"All art is a recreation of nature" -- Lucius Annæus Seneca
"Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction." -- Edward O. Wilson
"Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure - they govern us in all we do, in all we say, in all we think: every effort we can make to throw off our subjection, will serve but to demonstrate and confirm" -- Jeremy Bentham
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." -- Salvador Dalí
"Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature." -- Jacob Bronowski
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it." -- Unknown
"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"" -- Bill Bradley
"Imagination is the air of mind" -- Philip James Bailey
"What is now proved was once only imagined" -- William Blake
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." -- Albert Einstein
"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels." -- Goya
"When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection his decline begins" -- Theodore Martin
" Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong." -- Terry Pratchett
"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel." -- Peter Nivio Zarlenga
"The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary." -- Ashleigh Brilliant
"Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep." -- Benjamin Rush
"Dream. It is the subconscious reality" -- Unknown
"When I consider this carefully, I find not a single property which with certainty separates the waking state from the dream. How can you be certain that your whole life is not a dream?" -- Rene Descartes
"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one." -- James Anthony Froude
"The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world. The fact of possessing imagination means that everything can be re dreamed. Each reality can have it" -- Ben Okri
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them." -- Unknown
"But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for." -- Paulo Coelho
"Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions." -- Edgar Cayce
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens." -- Carl Gustav Jung
"Dreams are necessary to life." -- Anaïs Nin
"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning." -- Gloria Steinem
"You see something and tell: "Why?". But I dream about something that have never existed and say: "Why not?"" -- George Bernard Shaw
"No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams." -- Jesse Jackson
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality." -- John Lennon
"Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly." -- Langston Hughes
"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time." -- Calvin and Hobbes
"We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake." -- Erich Fromm
"Dreams and dedication are a powerful combination." -- William Longgood
"Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real." -- Tupac Shakur

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. ~Thomas Paine

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, of making a mistake,... of searching and experimenting,... of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophical, religious, social, and even political

Here is my advice as we begin the century that will lead to 2081. First, guard the freedom of ideas at all costs. Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered expression.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Men fight for freedom, then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Who speaks of liberty while the human mind is in chains?

I prefer liberty with danger to peace with slavery.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

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Its a shame so many people out there are willing to oppress others while at the same time claim freedom.

I really liked this one

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
C. S. Lewis

Mine is in my signature.. All of them are.

A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass. -Howard Kankel

It is a good thing for an educated man to read books of quotations. -Winston Churchill

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. -Tom Stoppard

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. -Hesketh Pearson

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. -Ambrose Bierce