quotes i like like
or dislike
about people: "we're a virus with shoes"
- bill hicks
"How fortunate for governments that the
people they administer don't think." -hitler
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere
with what you can do." -John Wooden
"You have no control over what the other
guy does. You only have control over what you do." -A J Kitt
"There are some ideas so absurd that
only an intellectual could believe them." - George Orwell
"Be quick, but don't hurry." -John Wooden
"Education is a weapon, whose effect
depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." -Joseph
Stalin
"Sixty years ago I knew everything; now
I know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
-Will Durant
"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately
it kills all its pupils." -Berlioz
"Running is 60% mental and 40% physical."
-Ralf Latham, University High Track Coach
"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness
of character." -Albert Einstein
"A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco, wrapped
in paper, fire at one end, fool at the other."
"Saying it's your job don't make it alright."
-Paul Newman from Cool Hand Luke
"It was impossible to get a conversation
going, everybody was talking too much." -Yogi Berra
"truth has three phases; the first is
denial. the second is hostility. the third is universal acceptance because
it's apparent." - Spinoza
"peoples and governments never have learned
anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it." - hegel
"without music life would be a mistake"
- nietzsche
"two great european narcotics, alcohol
and christianity" - nietzsche
"democracy is the
worst form of government, except for all the others." - winston churchill
"Be the change
you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi
"try not to become
a man of success but rather try to become a a man of value" - albert einstein
"sometimes the
majority only means that all the fools are on the same side" - michael
w. smith...
"what you do speaks
so loud that i cannot hear what you say" - ralph waldo emerson
"to know what is
right and not do it is the worst cowardice" - confucious
One death is a
tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. -Joseph Stalin
To generalize is
to be an idiot. -William Blake
Technological progress is like an axe
in the hands of a pathological criminal. -Albert Einstein
Only two things are infinite, the universe
and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein
The only difference between genius and
stupidity is that genius has its limits. -Albert Einstein
If a million people believe a foolish
thing, it is still a foolish thing. -Anatole France
My advice to you is get married: if you
find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
Egotist: a person more interested in
himself than in me. -Ambrose Bierce
All censorships exist to prevent any
one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All
progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed
by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition
of progress is the removal of censorships. -George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
-Samuel Johnson
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
-Kierkegaard
"The value of a company is the sum of
all the problems it's solved" - co-founder of Spotify
Seven Sins:
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Religion without sacrifice.
Politics without principle.