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| Quotes from wise men.. on Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:18 pm |
Tankdown
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I just thought it be interesting to decuss about quotes from people that I just so happen to find around the internet.
For example...this one might just relate to some of you....no offense is met from this
| James Agate wrote: |
| "New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time." |
I like this one
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote: |
| "Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart. " |
I always been a fan of Socrates
| Socrates wrote: |
| To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise: for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them: but they fear it as if they know quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know? |
This one sort of suits us
| Socrates wrote: |
| "The unexamined life is not worth living." |
Ideas on some of these quotes? Quotes that you like to share yourself? Please share 
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| Most misquoted line ever. on Mon Jan 22, 2007 8:47 pm |
Eldibs
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither. |
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| If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means I do not know. |
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| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself! |
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| No, I AM your father! |
Oh, wait, disregard that last one.
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| Posted on Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:20 pm |
Lleu
Joined: 29 Apr 2006
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This poem. The whole thing. By Schiller.
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| Posted on Mon Jan 22, 2007 11:41 pm |
Tankdown
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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| Socrates wrote: |
"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
"The soul is pure when it leaves the body and drags nothing bodily with it, by virtue of having no willing association with the body in life but avoiding it.......Practicing philosophy in the right way is a training to die easily."
"I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny?" |
| Aristotle wrote: |
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"Wit is educated insolence." |
| Aristotle wrote: |
| Tankdown wrote: |
| I tend to think of myself being related to this one...but not in a good way |
"He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." |
Confucius says...
| Confucius wrote: |
"The object of the superior man is truth."
"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
"Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change." |
love the peom Lleu 
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:25 am |
somefatguy
Joined: 17 Jan 2006
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Oooh, those just tickle my fancy.
I have always loved proverbs!
To me, proverbs are actually better than food. (I haven't used a fat joke in a while, forgive me.)
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:25 am |
Woodpecker
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"I'm all in favour of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typwriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine."
"Jesus saves. Moses invests."
"Clones are people two."
"A tidy desk is the sign of an untidy desk drawer."
"If at first you don't succeed, skydiving probably isn't for you."
"Never argue with a fool. They bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience."
"If you try and make something foolproof, someone will make a better fool."
"O' Tool's law of inanimate reproduction: if you take something apart and put it together enough times, eventually you will have two."
and finally my signature:
"Her grammar was as bad as, like, whatever."
Those are the ones I can think of at the moment.
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| Re: Most misquoted line ever. on Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:22 am |
randywm
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| Eldibs wrote: |
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| Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither. |
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| If I claim to be a wise man, it surely means I do not know. |
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| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself! |
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| No, I AM your father! |
Oh, wait, disregard that last one. |
Did you just quote Kansas?
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:56 am |
MartialArtist
Joined: 03 Feb 2006
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The poet and sufi master Rumi said:
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| Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. |
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:25 am |
somefatguy
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| MartialArtist wrote: |
The poet and sufi master Rumi said:
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| Thinking gives off smoke to prove the existence of fire. A mystic sits inside the burning. There are wonderful shapes in rising smoke that imagination loves to watch. But it's a mistake to leave the fire for that filmy sight. Stay here at the flame's core. |
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Ah, I actually get it. Very clever.
Damn I love proverbs/quotes.
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
~Katharine Graham
"One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself."
~Sara Jeanette Duncan
(I found those two by walking around the library...apparently the sexsist librarian put them there. She has a whole wall of female proverbs but I picked out the least sexsist of course.)
"The cure for boredom is curiosity."
~I forgot so, Unknown.
I have tons more at home!
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 9:35 am |
GreatWhiteNinja
Joined: 16 Feb 2006
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Good quotes so far. Here's one of my own that you actually admit to liking, SFG:
"Be as an oasis of love, one that reveals itself to those who thirst."
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:51 pm |
McLoud
Joined: 14 Apr 2006
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| somefatguy wrote: |
| You think you know, but you only think. |
Was that in your sig from you? nice one too.
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:03 pm |
somefatguy
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| McLoud wrote: |
| somefatguy wrote: |
| You think you know, but you only think. |
Was that in your sig from you? nice one too. |
Heh, yeah it is actually. I'm suprised you noticed. But that was just me screwing around. One of my hobbies is actually writing proverbs. I am composing a book sort of. I have lots of them at home.
I write down the ones I make up and the ones that I find in certain places.
Like just yesterday I found one in the garbage by Martin Luther King, Jr.
I can't remember exactly what it said though.
I am going to write down the ages in which I made them up as well, and then I can compare the ones I make when I am older and see how much the message changes and how much they change in general. I think it will be interesting.
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:52 pm |
shenlon2
Joined: 17 Jan 2006
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“give a man a fish and he has food for a day, give a man a fishing rod and he’ll break it up for fire wood, or trade it for a fish”
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:11 pm |
Jake
Joined: 31 May 2006
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| Albert Einstein wrote: |
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
"Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
"As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
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| Thomas Edison wrote: |
"Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
"If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves...."
"Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"Results? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results! If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward."
"The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast."
"Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything."
"I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator."
"We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines ."
"Be courageous! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation.... Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward!"
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I have more, but these should suffice for now 
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| Posted on Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:54 pm |
Tankdown
Joined: 10 Aug 2006
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Wonderful words from all of you!
But Jake I think you missed one of Thomas Edison.
| Tomas Edison wrote: |
| I have not failed, I only found 10,000 ways that don't work. |
Like the one about Einstein about world war 3 the best. I also like these by him
| Einstein wrote: |
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods."
"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
"The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
"Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value." |
The last one should be looked at closely...
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