Hella Quotes

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• Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. -Theodor Adorno, philosopher and composer (1903-1969)
• "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." Theodore Roosevelt
• "There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world." - Margeurite Gardiner, writer (1789-1849)
• "The problem with the French is that they don't have a word for 'entrepeneur'" - George W. Bush
• In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations. -Iroquois Nation Maxim
• "There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee - that says, fool me once, shame on - shame on you. Fool me - you can't get fooled again." George W. Bush
• "Sundance [Film Festival] is weird. The movies are weird - you actually have to think about them when you watch them" Britney Spears
• "I have two weapons: my legs, my arm, and my brains." Michael Vick
• Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. -Lord Chesterfield, statesman and writer (1694-1773)
• "There are times when I see some comely young lady I would love to have as a house pet. But my wife won't let me, dammit. And I bought her a gun. That shows you how smart I am." New Hampshire state Rep. Richard Kennedy, at a public hearing on gay-marriage legislation, in a remark unrelated to the bill.
• Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see a man without an erection make him a sandwich." Phyllis Diller
• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger. -W. Somerset Maugham, writer (1874-1965)
• If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. -Blaise Pascal, philosopher and mathematician (1623-1662)
• As regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual working in solitude. -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939)
• But man, proud man, / Drest in a little brief authority, / Most ignorant of what he's most assured, / His glassy essence, like an angry ape, / Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven / As make the angels weep. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
• He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own. -Confucius (c. 551-479? BC)
• There lives more faith in honest doubt, / Believe me, than in half the creeds. -Alfred, Lord Tennyson, poet (1809-1892)
• I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)
• Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. -Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist (1825-1895)
• The deeper that sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven? -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet, and artist (1883-1931)
• The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, philosopher (1844-1900)
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• Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)
• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone; all leave it alone. -Thomas De Quincey, writer (1785-1859)
• I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. -Kahlil Gibran, mystic, poet and artist (1883-1931)
• Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
• If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. -John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)>
• A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs--jolted by every pebble in the road. -Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)
• It is as hard for the good to suspect evil, as it is for the bad to suspect good. -Marcus Tullius Cicero, statesman, orator, writer (106-43 BCE)
• Oftentimes excusing of a fault / Doth make the fault the worse by th' excuse. -William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)
• All the world's a stage, / And the men and women merely players: / They have their exits and their entrances; / And one man in his time plays many parts. -William Shakespeare, poet and dramatist (1564-1616)

Favorites

• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -George Bernard Shaw, writer, Nobel laureate (1856-1950)
• Green's Law of Debate: Anything is possible if you don't know what you're talking about.
• The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -Dorothy Neville
• The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure. -Henry David Thoreau
• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. -Saul Bellow.
• The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. -Groucho Marx
• It is the weak who are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong - Leo Roskin
• Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. -Leonardo da Vinci (just keep telling yourself that, Leo. Now about that nose hair...)
• The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. -George Bernard Shaw
• He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. -Friedrich Nietzsche
• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true. -Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

Some others

• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. -Jules Renard, writer (1864-1910)
• A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present? -Confucius, philosopher and teacher (551-497 BC)
• What is to give light must endure burning. -Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)
• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind. -Leonardo da Vinci, painter, engineer, musician, and scientist (1452-1519)
• At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely. -W. Somerset Maugham, novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer (1874-1965)
• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. -Rene Descartes
• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. -Voltaire (1694-1778)
• Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not, knows no release from little things. -Amelia Earhart, aviator (1897-1937)
• Selfish, adj. Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
• God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest. -Swedish proverb
• Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. -Mahatma Gandhi
• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -Mark Twain, U.S. Author (1835-1910)
• If...the machine of government...is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. -Henry David Thoreau
• If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. -Carl Gustav Jung, Swiss psychiatrist (1875-1961)
• To those who do not know mathematics it is difficult to get across a real feeling as to the beauty, the deepest beauty of nature. If you want to learn about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the language that she speaks in. -Richard Feynman (1918-1988)
• Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket, and do not pull it out and strike it merely to show you have one. If you are asked what o'clock it is, tell it, but do not proclaim it hourly and unasked, like the watchman. -Lord Chesterfield
• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -Bertrand Russell
• It is more shameful to distrust one's friends than to be deceived by them. -De la Rochefoucauld, French writer (1613-1680)
• It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us. -Epicurus, Greek philosopher (341-270 BC)
• As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. -Ralph Waldo Emerson(1803-1882)
• The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. -Abigail Van Buren
• Music is a higher revelation than philosophy. -Ludwig van Beethoven
• The lust for life gets stronger with living. -John Gatti
• Our sincerest laughter \ With some pain is fraught; \ Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. -Shelley
• Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part. -Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) [Sand and Foam]
• To hold and fill to overflowing is not as good as to stop in time. Sharpen a knife-edge to its very sharpest and the edge will not last long. -Lao-Tzu, Chinese philosopher (circa 600 BC)
• Errors like straws upon the surface flow: / Who would search for pearls must dive below. -John Dryden
• If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship n constant repair. -Samuel Johnson, British lexicographer (1709-1784)
• A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut. -Albert Einstein
• "I'm strongly urged by advisers not to say 'moral laxity,' so let's say 'sense of humor.' " -- Walter Cronkite, asked to name the quality he most admires in a woman, in Vanity Fair magazine.
• Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist. -Michael Levine [Lessons at the Halfway Point]
• Mankind's greatest challenge is balancing Love and Work -- Sigmund Freud
• There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. -Soren Kierkegaard
• During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. When once the risk has really been taken, then the greatest danger is to risk too much. - Soren Aaby Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. -Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
• The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. -William Wordsworth
• Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong. -Zen proverb
• Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. -Helen Adams Keller (1880-1968)
• 'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it. A complete man should need no auxiliaries to his personal presence. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness. -Ouida, pen name of Marie Louise de la Ramee (1839-1908)
• There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -Will Durant, historian (1885-1981)
• Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. -William Strunk, Jr., professor and author (1869-1946)
• "You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you. For Life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday. You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are sent forth." Kahlil Gibran
• A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. -Rabindranath Tagore, poet, philosopher, author, songwriter, painter, educator, composer, Nobel laureate (1861-1941)

RE: Computers

• "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
• "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.' --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
• "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." -The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
• "But what ... is it good for?" -Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
• "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
• "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates, 1981