The Quotes Thread!

[N_LaRUE]

"Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force."

George Bernard Shaw

 

[psoham777]

It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
- J. Petit Senn

 

[psoham777]

You can never do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

[psoham777]

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S. Truman

 

[horseybob]

"It is a sad reflection on our civilization that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus we do not know what goes on inside our souffl?s."

Nicolas Kurti

 

[psoham777]

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- Henry David Thoreau

 

[N_LaRUE]

"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."

Louis Pasteur

 

[Guytronic]

A couple of Robert J Oppenheimer quotes:

"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds...
The pessimist fears it is true..."

"No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows..."

 

[psoham777]

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
- Lucille Ball

 

[N_LaRUE]

In honour of Darwin Day some Charles Darwin quotes!

"A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others."

"We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act."

"I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection."

"What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!"

 

[psoham777]

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
- John Wooden

 

[N_LaRUE]

“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.”

Carl Sagan from Pale Blue Dot

 

[psoham777]

Worry often gives a small thing a great shadow.
- Swedish Proverb

 

[worldspy99]

"The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance." - Herodotus

 

[psoham777]

If you can see the positive sides of everything, you'll be able to live a much richer life than others.
- Celestine Chua

 

[jmshub]

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
– Fred Brooks

 

[psoham777]

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.
- Albert Einstein

 

[psoham777]

Be the type of person you want to meet.
- Anonymous

 

[Marko Marjanovic]

,, Don't be hasty "
Ents from Lotr.

 

[worldspy99]

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
Lao Tzu