Quotes
I enjoy having my own list of quotations for two reasons:
- I hate not remembering my favorites.
- Favorite quotes serve to define a person rather quickly, which helps others who resonate at the same frequencies realize that we share perspectives.
So it's in the spirit of my site in general (enjoy...share) that I create and nurture this list.
General
[ I'll be adding categories soon... ]
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. — Carl Sagan
It's better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to always be right by never having any ideas at all. - Edward de Bono
Two of my favorite things are sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe of sweet hemp, and playing my Hohner harmonica. - Abraham Lincoln
Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Heres Tom with the Weather. - Bill Hicks (comedian)
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. - Elbert Hubbard
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, sir? – Keynes
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants. – Camus
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity – Yeats
Goebbels was in favor of freedom of speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re in favor of freedom of speech, that means you’re in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. – Chomsky
We are what we only pretend to be. So we must be careful about what we pretend to be. – Vonnegut
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity — in all this vastness — there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. – Sagan
If you want to do good work, what you need is a great curiosity about a promising question. - Paul Graham
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
When my information changes, I change my opinion. What do you do, Sir?” – John Maynard Keynes
If a nation expects to be ignorant — and free — in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. - Thomas Jefferson
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. ~ Douglas Adams
If I look over my life, every single step of maturing for me, every single one, has had the exact same common denominator: accepting what was true over what I wished were true. ~ Julia Sweeney
"If you watch 'Jaws' backwards, it's a movie about a shark that keeps throwing up people until they have to open a beach"
You don't truly understand something until you think it's obvious.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~ Arthur Miller
The unexamined life is not worth living. ~ Socrates
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
I'd drag my dick through broken glass for a mile just to hear that woman fart over a walkie-talkie. ~ Irish Saying
Be yourself, because the people who mind don't matter, and the people who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
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